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On-Sky Rotator Vector [1]

ARCoIRIS hosts a J-band imaging detector, which contemporaneously acts as a slit viewer and a guider. Its on-sky orientation changes however as a function of instrument rotator angle, which can make the identification of fields difficult using the usual N-up, E-left norm for astronomical finding charts. The schematic below shows the on-sky cardinal directions for the slit viewer detector as a function of rotator angle. 

 


Source URL (modified on 03/08/2018 - 21:04): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/TS4-SV-Sky-Rotator-Vector

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