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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 the focal plane.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 strategiesits focal plane. |
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.
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