Tag Archives: Chimera II

Chimera 2 first light

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Nick Konidaris

Chimera 2, a new high-speed and wide-field imager for Palomar achieved first light! Gregg Hallinan is the PI, I’m proud to have performed the lens-design for this instrument, all optics are off-the-shelf, so the real challenge was the imaginative way … Continue reading →

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Canon f/2.0 200-mm ZEMAX model

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Nick Konidaris

Based on Japanese Patent J2001, 253050, A, I constructed an approximate optical model for the Canon EF f/2.0L 200-mm lens. I can’t know for sure if this model matches the constructed hardware, but the model is a good starting point. … Continue reading →

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