Instruments
Current Development | |
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IRIS | Infrared Imaging Spectrograph. Combined high resolution imager and integral-field spectrometer. First light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope project. |
Scheduled Delivery: 2028 to TMT in Hawaii | |
LIGER | Next generation near-infrared integral field spectrograph for the Keck Observatory. |
Delivered | |
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GPI | Gemini Planet Imager First Light: November 11, 2013 Delivered: September 1, 2013 Installed at the Cassegrain focus of the Gemini South Telescope |
MOSFIRE | Multi-Object Spectrometer for
Infra-Red Exploration First Light: April 4, 2012 Delivered: February, 2012 Installed at the Cassegrain focus of the Keck I telescope |
FLITECAM | First Light: September, 2002 at Lick Observatory Delivered: July, 2011 to SOFIA (NASA Ames) New Zealand Deployment: June, 2015 Infrared camera for SOFIA |
SHARC | First Light: May 14, 2006s Delivered: April, 2006 Infrared Camera for Adaptive Optics System at Keck |
OSIRIS | First Light: February 22, 2005 Delivered: February, 2005 Spectrometer Detector Upgraded: January, 2016 Imager Detector Upgraded: September, 2017 Integral Field Spectrograph for Adaptive Optics System at Keck |
NIRC2 | First Light: July, 2001 at Keck Observatory Infrared camera for Adaptive Optics System at Keck Detector Electronics System delivered to Caltech September, 1999 |
NIRSPEC | First Light: April, 1999 Spectrometer Detector Upgraded: August, 2018 SCAM Detector Upgraded: October, 2018 Near Infrared Spectrometer for the W.M. Keck Telescope |
USNO Infrared Camera | First Light: June, 1994 A general purpose near infrared (JHK) camera was designed and commissioned for the 61-inch telescope of the US Naval Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona |
Gemini | First Light: June, 1993 Two Channel Infrared Camera for the 3-meter Shane Telescope at Lick Observatory |
K-Cam | First Light: March, 1992 at Lick Observatory Near Infrared Camera System. Initially K band only, upgraded in 1998 to JHK. Most recently K-Cam was drafted into service as the first light camera for the Keck Adaptive Optics System. |