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PI: Brian McLeod 
CoI: John Geary 
Project Engineer: Thomas Gauron 
Delivery Date: 2000 
 

Megacam is a large mosaic CCD camera with a 24'x24' field, made up of 36 CCDs with 2048x4608 pixels. Its 0.08" pixels offer good sampling at the best seeing. Megacam has a 20 second readout time and 8 filter slots, in addition to in-dewar guiding, focusing, and low order wavefront sensing. 

 
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