CONICA
COudé Near Infrared CAmera
Short Description:
CONICA is an instrument for diffraction limited imaging, coronography, spectroscopy, and polarimetry at the VLT in the 1 to 5µm spectral range.
CONICA is operated only in connetion with NAOS, an adaptive optics system. The combination of both instruments is called NACO.
Project Type:
Instrument for ground-based telescope
MPE Contribution:
CONICA has been built under ESO contract by a consortium of MPIA and MPE. MPIA has been responsible for the optics and cryo-mechanics, MPE contributed the detector and the readout electronics.
Status:
Decommissioned and superseded by ERIS
Links:
Infrared/Submillimeter Astronomy (web pages of the MPE department involved in the project)
News:
Sharp eyes at the VLT - a decade of observations with NACO
Astronomical images taken with NACO.
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