New SQIID detectors

[SQIID] New SQIID detectors

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Refurbishment of the SQIID camera with new 512x512 detectors. SQIID (Simultaneous Quad Infrared Imaging Device) can simultaneously image in the J, H, K and L pass bands, covering over three arc minutes of the sky at the 4-meter and nearly six arc minutes at the 2.1-meter. See the article in the NOAO March 2000 newsletter.

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