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Subaru Prime Focus Camera โ€” Suprime-Cam

Subaru Prime Focus Camera โ€” Suprime-Cam

Abstract We have built an 80-mega pixels ($10240 \times 8192$) mosaic CCD camera, called Suprime-Cam, for the wide-field prime focus of the 8.2 m Subaru telescope. Suprime-Cam covers a field of view $34' \times 27'$, a unique facility among the 8โ€“10 m class telescopes, with a resolution of ${0\rlap {.}{}^{\mathrm โ€ฆ