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This page describes the telescope and instruments used to obtain the PanSTARRS data, 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.

Planned contents:

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  • Facility design and construction
    • The telescope, location, FOV
    • Site quality
  • Detectors
    • Description, numbering scheme
    • Bad pixel masks
    • Evolution of detectors over the survey period
    • Unique qualities and relation to observing strategy and data quality
    • Dynamic range
  • Filters
    • Selection criteria
    • Throughput curves
    • Comparison to nominally similar other filters
  • Seeing - distribution function by filter

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