User's Guide to the Prime Focus Camera


Table of Contents


Introduction
Description
Hardware Overview
Software Overview
Detector Characteristics
Plate Scale and FOV
Filters
Count Rates
PFCam User Interfaces
Motor Control GUI
CCD Interface
Eventsounds
Observing with PFCam
Starting the Software
Observing Hints
Illustrations
3-D representation
2-D representation
CCD diagrams
PFCam layout

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Count Rates

The measured zeropoint magnitudes and sky magnitudes for the PFCam broadband 3" filters are listed below.

FilterMzpSky (mag/arcsec^2)
U22.7721.81
B25.1421.90
V25.0320.88
g25.0221.69
Rs24.8721.30
I24.8119.94

Magnitudes measured 2007 Aug 9 by E.Gates using Landolt Standard stars.

Zeropoint magnitudes as measured for the 4" broadband filters are below (measured 2011 Oct 7 by E. Gates using Landolt Standard stars, because it was not a new moon new sky brightness values were not calculated).

FilterMzp
U22.63
B25.08
V25.36
R25.65
I25.15
g25.44
Z24.94
Rs25.09


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