Fig. 12 : Mosaic Observing:
Using the PMAS A&G Camera graphical user interface and a modified
version of the pointing procedure, it is possible to obtain accurately
aligned pointings which can be used to assemble datacubes with a larger
field-of-view than supplied by the standard IFU alone. For a given object,
e.g. NGC5432 in the example above,
one can generate "tiles" to optimally cover any regions of interest,
either as a regular grid of e.g. 3x3 pointings (which would cover
48 x 48 arcsec^2 on the sky when using the 1 arcsec sampling mode),
or in a tilted, or even overlapping, geometry ...
see Fig.12-x
Last update September 10, 2004 by M.
Roth