The FastCam instrument platform, jointly developed by the IAC and the UPCT, allows, in real-time, acquisition, selection and storage of images with a resolution that reaches the diffraction limit of medium-sized telescopes. FastCam incorporates a specially designed software package to analyse series of tens of thousands of images in parallel with the data acquisition at the telescope. Wide FastCam is a new instrument that, using the same software for data acquisition, does not look for lucky imaging but fast observations in a much larger field of view. Here we describe the commissioning process and first observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos S\'anchez (TCS) in the Observatorio del Teide.
@article{arxiv.1608.04807,
title = {Commissioning and First Observations with Wide FastCam at the Telescopio Carlos S\'anchez},
author = {Sergio Velasco and Urtats Etxegarai and Alejandro Oscoz and Roberto L. López and Marta Puga and Gaizka Murga and Antonio Pérez-Garrido and Enric Pallé and Davide Ricci and Ismael Ayuso and Mónica Hernández-Sánchez and Nicola Truant},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04807},
year = {2016}
}
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7 pages, 8 figures, Proc. SPIE. 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99082O. (August 09, 2016)