Magellan Telescopes

The Magellan Telescopes are a pair of 6.5-meter optical reflector telescopes at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. They are named Baade (first light, 2000) and Clay (2002) after astronomer Walter Baade and philanthropist Landon Clay. Surveys include the Magellan Planet Search Program using the MIKE echelle spectrograph on the Clay Telescope. Instruments on the Baade Telescope:

• IMACS - wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph.
• FourStar - wide-field near-infrared camera.
• MagE - moderate-resolution optical echelette.
• FIRE - moderate-resolution NIR echelette spectrograph.

Instruments on Clay Telescope:

• MIKE - double-echelle spectrograph.
• LDSS3 - wide-field multi-slit spectrograph.
• MEGACAM - large mosaic CCD camera.
• MagAO - secondary mirror/adaptive optics system.
• WINERED - near-infrared spectrograph.

Instruments that can be installed and used in place of MIKE:

• M2FS - Michigan/Magellan Fiber System
• PFS - The Planet Finding Spectrograph.
• PISCO - a simultaneous multi band visible imager.

Previously listed instruments:

• MMIRS - NIR imager and multi-slit spectrograph.
• MagIC - direct imaging CCD camera.
• PANIC - near-IR imager.