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	The NOAO/KPNO Mosaic-1.1 (8K x 8K CCD) Wide Field Imager
	Mosaic 1.0 is now Mosaic 1.1!

The Mosaic 1 imager has been upgraded during the summer of 2010 and has been recommisioned this fall. The science grade SITE CCDs have been replaced with more sensitive E2V CCDs and the well used ARCON controllers have been replaced with MONSOON controllers. These web pages are in the process of being updated. A new version of the manual can be found below, as can a quick reference page on the new CCDs. Please contact Heidi Schweiker or Buell Jannuzi for information you need about the new upgraded Mosaic 1.1 that you are not yet able to find on these pages. The Mosaic 1.1 upgrade project web pages contains additional information about the upgrade project and the new version of the instrument. 

Information about the previous version of Mosaic, Mosaic 1.0, can be found via the older web pages.

General Information for Observers

• Instrument Manual for Mosaic 1.1 (Version 4.3, 10 February 2011) - HTML or PDF file: 9.7 MB
• NGUI Readme file and Tar bundle.
  All observations with Mosaic 1.1 must be executed via a script. Scripts are straightforward to create using NGUI. Observers can download a copy of the NGUI via the link above (right click and save link as). Please download a copy and try making some observing scripts in advance of your observing run, but note that any script created with this demo version will not be usable at the telescope (due to filter location). NGUI is available at the telescope for creating scripts on-the-fly.
• Instrument Calibration Information Now updated for Mosaic-1.1
• MOSAIC Filter Properties
• Properties of the new e2V CCDS in Mosaic-1.1 (QE, read noise, gain)
• Get the lastest version of mscred either by downloading the package from the IRAF FTP site or by using dynamic package loading with IRAF v2.15.

Tools And Reductions

• Calculate exposure times (CCDTIME)
The upgraded Mosaic, Mosaic 1.1, is more sensitive than Mosaic 1.0.  We will be upgrading the CCDTIME exposure time calculator as new calibration observations have been processed.

• IRAF Software and Documents
• Buell Jannuzi's Guide to NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey MOSAIC Reductions, Updated for version 2.12 of IRAF and MSCRED 4.7
This guide is geered toward processing the older Mosaic 1.0 images with software pre 2010.  A new version of the guide suitable for Mosaic 1.1 and the most recent upgrades by Frank Valdes is being drafted and will be posted when available.

• Getting the MSCRED Reduction package
The link above refers to the pre-November 2010 version of MSCRED. A new version is also available (see above).
• The NOAO Data Handbook is a guide to accessing and using data from major NOAO instruments, currently addressing the Mosaic and NEWFIRM wide-field imagers. The Data Handbook describes the formats and characteristics of raw data, and the pipeline processing applied to all recent and current observations and its data products. It also describes how to access these data in the NOAO Science Archive.

Newletter Articles

• Mosaic 1.1 - Bringing Better Imaging to Kitt Peak - NOAO Newsletter September 2010
• A New Image Acquisition System for the Kitt Peak National Observatory Mosaic-1 Imager - SPIE 7735 (2010)
• Kitt Peak Mosaic Upgrade - an Imager for a New Decade of Science - NOAO Newsletter March 2010

Images from Mosaic 1.1

• First Light Images with the Upgraded Mosaic.

	Sharpless 2-188	NGC 1999

NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. by Heidi Schweiker

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