User's Guide to the Prime Focus Camera


Table of Contents


Introduction
Description
Hardware Overview
Software Overview
Detector Characteristics
Plate Scale and FOV
Filters
Count Rates
PFCam User Interfaces
Dashboard
Top-end Interface
CCD Interface
Soundserver
Observing with PFCam
Starting the Software
Observing Hints
Illustrations
3-D representation
2-D representation
CCD diagrams
PFCam layout

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Count Rates

The measured zeropoint magnitudes and sky magnitudes for the PFCam broadband 3" filters are listed below.

FilterMzpSky (mag/arcsec^2)
U22.7721.81
B25.1421.90
V25.0320.88
g25.0221.69
Rs24.8721.30
I24.8119.94

Magnitudes measured 2007 Aug 9 by E.Gates using Landolt Standard stars.