Gattini-IR

Gattini-IR is a 30 cm infrared (IR) survey (wide field of view) telescope at Palomar Observatory, to image a substantial portion of the sky nightly in the infrared J band (wavelength in the 1.25 micron range). It began operation in 2018. It serves as a pilot for a pair of such telescopes in the polar regions where IR atmospheric windows are better and allow such imaging in the K band (2.2 micron) as well. (gattini, Italian for "kittens", was adopted for this telescope after it was a nickname for some earlier modest research telescopes.)