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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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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 is mounted in the focal plane.

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  The starting point for the PS1 data archive is at The 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. 

 

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