# Schmidt Observatory System

This is the documentation site for
[The Schmidt Observatory System](https://www.schmidtsciences.org/schmidt-observatory-system/).
See the links below for documentation for the different codes and projects.

## Documentation sets

% Plain <a href> rather than [text](/projects/wcc-sim/): MyST resolves a bare
% leading-slash target as a document in this source tree and warns that it
% does not exist. The subprojects are served by RTD, not built here, so the
% links have to stay literal root-relative URLs.

<a href="/projects/wcc-sim/">WCC Simulator</a>
: End-to-end photometric image simulator for the Wide-field Context Camera
  (WCC) on *Lazuli*. Goes from a pointing on the sky to a calibratable
  multi-extension FITS image, with Gaia DR3 source injection, in-focus and
  defocused PSFs, and a full noise and saturation model.

<a href="/projects/wcc-etc/">WCC exposure time calculator</a>
: The WCC instrument model — throughput, count rates, sky background, dark
  current, read noise, and full-well/ADC saturation. The simulator calls into
  the ETC, so the two agree by construction.

```{toctree}
:hidden:
:maxdepth: 2
```