Status of MEGA-H: An Ultra-Wide-Field Camera for Heliophysics Applications

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MEGA-H is a multi-detector, wide-field telescope system that produces ultra-high-resolution, seamless images. The optical path employs pickoff mirrors that partition the image field onto three individual detectors. The detectors can be located conveniently apart from each other while preserving the whole FOV and producing a recombined image without any gaps. This architecture enables a scientist to choose the best detector for the task, which may have the good detection properties but insufficient number of pixels, and combine multiple detectors to achieve the desired pixel count. This camera system will initially be mounted behind a wide FOV white light imager and be capable of both wide FOV (10 degrees on diagonal) and high instantaneous field of view (iFOV) (