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PANIC Exposure Time Calculator

Values of GAIN, READ NOISE and DARK CURRENT used for the computations have been taken from calibration of detector with the best performances (SG1).

IMPORTANT: Only valid for the old mosaic composed by four HAWAII-2RG detectors .

Telescope info

Telescope

Source info

Object

Object Magnitude

mag or mag/arcsec2

Atmosphere

Airmass

Seeing

arcsec

Instrument Setup

Filter

Observation Setup

Integration time DIT per frame

sec

Number of frames NDIT

mag or mag/arcsec2

The total exposure time is the product of the Integration Time and the Number of Frames.

Zeropoints

Zero-Point Definitions

The Zeropoints of Omega2000 have not been properly estimated. We just have a rough estimation.

Calculations and Outputs

Object Signal

counts/sec

SN

(per pixel for an extended object)

For a point source object the simulator also calculates the signal at the intensity peak.

Intensity Peak