Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2014 · 17 citations · 2 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyInfrared AstronomyObservational AstronomyOptical AstronomyInfrared DetectorsInfrared InstrumentationInfrared TelescopesNear-infrared AstronomySky SurveysSpace-based Infrared ObservatoriesAll-sky Infrared SurveysAll-sky MonitoringSky Radiance
The Radiometric All-Sky Infrared Camera (RASICAM) has been operating on Cerro Tololo for over two years looking for clouds in the 10 to 12 micron IR band. Every 90 seconds each night RASICAM collects an integrated image of sky conditions and reports them to the Blanco telescope control system (TCS) to be shared with other instruments. We report on the RASICAM design, calibration and performance of the system. Additionally, correlation with conditions as observed in the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) will be presented.
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