Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) was installed at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile in March of 2009 (previously operating from Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona). WHAM is a completely remote and robotic observing facility.

The WHAM project is funded primarily through grants from the National Science Foundation with additional support provided by the University of Wisconsin Graduate School, the UW Department of Physics, and the UW Department of Astronomy. Much of the hardware was built and assembled by the University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory and the Physical Sciences Laboratory.

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) group is studying one important component of the interstellar medium (ISM) in our own Milky Way to help answer important questions about how galaxies work.

For scientists: More details can be found on the science page.