Ground-based instrumentation
at Fick Observatory
-or-
doing first-rate science with modest means
and making pretty pictures!
The Telescopes
24" (0.60m) Cass/Newt
DFM Guiding/control system
other smaller telescopes for labs/photography
New Instruments:
Newtonian instrument bay
wider-field fast blue-sensitive CCD camera
High-Speed CCD photometer
Legacy instruments:
radial velocity correlation spectrograph
CCD camera (wide field)
high-speed photometer (WET design)
Advantages
nearby - maximize efficiency
short focal length - wide field
interstellar medium
extended nebulosity around evolved stars
flexibility
Supernovae
gamma ray burst follow-up