The Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) is a gigantic mosaic CCD camera, which is installed at
the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope. The HSC uses 104 main science CCDs,
which cover 1.5 deg FoV in diameter, with a pixel scale of 0.17", as well as
4 CCDs for auto guider, and 8 CCDs for focus monitoring. Information about the instrument
can be found at:
We recommend to read the instrument information above first. For each observing run a set of filters is
defined, and observations are performed in these filters only. Due to the
construction of the instrument, changing filters during the night is time-consuming
and is not done frequently.
Questions regarding HSC should be directed to Drs. Satoshi Miyazaki
(satoshi [at] naoj.org), Fumiaki Nakata (nakata [at] naoj.org) and/or Tsuyoshi Terai (terai [at] naoj.org).