The NICMASS system met an untimely demise in the <a
href="http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/colless/StromloFire/">Mt. Stromlo
wildfire</a> in 2003.  Built as a utility infrared imager, it contained
a NICMOS3 256x256 HgCdTe array behind a 12 position filter wheel with
no other internal optics and minimal baffling.  It saw use as an <a
href="http://www.astro.umass.edu/theses/meyer/mdm/node2.html">imager
at the MDM 2.4 and 1.3-meter telescopes</a> and at the 0.4-meter
Whately Observatory telescope in western Massachusetts.  It's most
productive role was as a <a
href="http://www.astro.umass.edu/theses/meyer/veiling/node2.html">focal
plane for the KPNO Coude Feed telescope</a> where it provided R=7200
spectroscopy across the 1.61-1.65um wavelength range.  It's life ended
in a similar Coude Feed application at Mt. Stromlo after 10 productive years.
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<td><a href="nicmass_system.jpg"><img width=200 src="nicmass_system.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href="nicmass_elect.jpg"><img width=200 src="nicmass_elect.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href="nicmass_fp.jpg"><img width=200 src="nicmass_fp.jpg"></a></td>
<td><a href="nicmass_fw.jpg"><img width=200 src="nicmass_fw.jpg"></a></td>
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<td width=200>The NICMASS system</td>
<td width=200>NICMASS drive electronics.  Designed and fabricated by undergraduate Ron Coutu</td>
<td width=200>The focal plane configuration.</td>
<td width=200>A compact filter wheel design permitting the insertion of 12 filters into a 4.5-inch diameter.</td>
<td width=200>NICMASS after the Mt. Stromlo fire.</td>
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Click <a href="http://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/instrumentation/NICMASS/nicmass.html">here</a> to see the original NICMASS web pages, and <a href="http://www.astro.virginia.edu/research/instrumentation/Whately/whately.html">here</a> to see the original
web pages for the Five College Whately Observatory.

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