FanCam: Image Gallery
Project overview:
Fan Cam, commissioned in December 2004, is a near-infrared camera for the Fan Mountain 31-inch telescope, designed and built under a grant funded by NSF. The above image of the Orion Nebula was taken by graduate students Srikrishna Kanneganti and Chan Park. It is a composite of J-band (blue), H (green) and Ks-band (red) images.Fan Cam is currently being used to obtain observations of blue compact dwarf galaxies, infrared supernovae, and open clusters as well as several star forming regions. Below are J[FeII]Ks-band composite image of M82, a JHKs-band composite image of the Orion Molecular Cloud-2 region and an H-band image of the Monoceros R2 region with a 2MASS H-band image of the same region inset for comparison.
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For additional information please e-mail Mike Skrutskie: mfs4n@virginia.edu.
