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10 July 2008 The Pan-STARRS PS4 telescope suite
Jeffrey S. Morgan, William Burgett, Jose U. Teran
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Abstract
The Pan-STARRS project is planning to build a suite of four telescopes (PS4) on the summit of Mauna Kea at the site of the current University of Hawaii 2.2-m telescope. These telescopes will have the goal of surveying the entire sky visible from a single site in 5 colors (g, r, i, z, and y) on the time scale of approximately 1 week at a spatial resolution limited primarily by the quality of the site. To accomplish this task each of these four telescopes will be equipped with a Giga-Pixel camera, a camera shutter, and a 6 filter mechanism. A prototype telescope for this project (PS1) that includes all of these subsystems is already under going commissioning. The project is currently involved in developing the Environmental Impact Statement that is required to build the PS4 array of telescopes. We give an overview here of the scientific goals, the instrumentation package, the telescope design, and the enclosure design for the PS4 system.
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Jeffrey S. Morgan, William Burgett, and Jose U. Teran "The Pan-STARRS PS4 telescope suite", Proc. SPIE 7012, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes II, 70122R (10 July 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.788437
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KEYWORDS
Telescopes

Cameras

Optical filters

Space telescopes

Camera shutters

Composites

Mirrors

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