SCORPIO-2 Guiding and Calibration System in the Prime Focus of the 6-m Telescope
Victor L. Afanasiev, Vladimir R. Amirkhanyan, Alexei V. Moiseev, Roman, I. Uklein, Alexander E. Perepelitsyn

TL;DR
The paper presents SCORPIO-2's guiding and calibration system for the 6-m telescope, featuring off-axis guiding, atmospheric control, and calibration capabilities for improved spectroscopic observations.
Contribution
It introduces a novel adapter with achromatic lens corrector and dual guiding fields for enhanced off-axis guiding and calibration in the telescope's prime focus.
Findings
Maintains image quality with 1'' FWHM within 15' off-axis.
Guiding stars up to mR ~17 mag are detectable.
Supports calibration with line and continuum sources over 350-900 nm.
Abstract
We describe a device (adapter) for off-axis guiding and photometric calibration of wide-angle spectrographs operating in the prime focus of the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences. To compensate coma in off-axis star images an achromatic lens corrector is used, which ensures maintaining image quality (FWHM) at a level of about 1'' within 15' from the optical axis. The device has two 54'-diameter movable guiding fields, which can move in 10' x 4'.5 rectangular areas. The device can perform automatic search for guiding stars, use them to control the variations of atmospheric transmittance, and focus the telescope during exposure. The limiting magnitude of potential guiding stars is mR ~17 mag. The calibration path whose optical arrangement meets the telecentrism condition allows the spectrograph to be illuminated both by a source of…
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