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Design, Manufacturing, And Commissioning Of Bircam (Bootes Infrared Camera), Alberto Riva, Paolo Conconi, Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado, Filippo Zerbi, Ronan Cunniffe, Martin Jelinek, Stanislav Vitek
Design, Manufacturing, And Commissioning Of Bircam (Bootes Infrared Camera), Alberto Riva, Paolo Conconi, Alberto Javier Castro-Tirado, Filippo Zerbi, Ronan Cunniffe, Martin Jelinek, Stanislav Vitek
Blackrock Castle Observatory Publications
This paper covers the various aspect of design, manufacturing and commissioning of the infrared camera BIRCAM, installed at BOOTES-IR, the 60 cm robotic infrared telescope at Sierra Nevada Observatory (OSN, Granada, Spain). We describe how we achieved a quality astronomical image, moving from the scientific requirements.