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The Pan-STARRS telescopes are located at Haleakala Observatories on the island of Maui. The first telescope built, the Pan-STARRS1 Telescope (PS1), is an alt-az telescope with an 1.8m diameter mirror. With a field-of-view diameter of 3 degrees, it can observe a 7 square degree are on the sky with every exposure. The PS1: GPC1 camera, which uses 60 Orthogonal Transfer Arrays devices, is mounted in its focal plane. The PS1 observations are obtained through a set of five broadband filters, designated as grizyP1. Under certain circumstances PS1 observations are obtained with a sixth, “wide” filter designated as wP1 that essentially spans the gri bands. The PS1 Observing strategy was optimized for detecting moving objects as well as a uniform coverage of the 3pi survey (see PS1 Description of the surveys). |
The starting point for the PS1 data archive is at Pan-STARRS1 data archive home page.
The information on the pages below is taken from Chambers et al 2016, "The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys" and this paper should be cited when information is used.
This page describes the telescope and instruments used to obtain the data in the PS1 survey, including design and construction; the detectors; the filters used; and the observing strategies.
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Parent page for the description of the observatory.
The information for this page should be taken from Chambers et al 2016.
Details about bad pixel mask should refer to Waters et al 2016.
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