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:

• FIRE - moderate-resolution NIR echelette spectrograph.
• FourStar - wide-field near-infrared camera.
• IMACS - wide-field imager and multi-object spectrograph.
• LLAMAS - integral field spectrograph.
• MagE - moderate-resolution optical echelette.
• ROSIE-IFU - image-slicing integral field unit (IFU) for IMACS.

Instruments on Clay Telescope:

• IFUM - IFU.
• LDSS3 - wide-field multi-slit spectrograph.
• Lightspeed (aka proto-Lightspeed) - imager designed to image transients at hundreds or thousands of frames per second.
• MagAO-X - visible and IR imaging AO system.
• MIKE - double-echelle spectrograph.
• PFS - The Planet Finding Spectrograph.
• M2FS - Michigan/Magellan Fiber System.

Other (possibly still) available instruments:

• MEGACAM - large mosaic CCD camera.
• WINERED - near-infrared spectrograph.
• PISCO - a simultaneous multi band visible imager.

Previously listed instruments:

• MagAO - predecessor to MagAO-X (before replacement or upgrade).
• MMIRS - NIR imager and multi-slit spectrograph.
• MagIC - direct imaging CCD camera.
• PANIC - near-IR imager.