  The Magellan Echellette (MagE) spectrograph is a single-object optical
echellette spectrograph for the Magellan Clay telescope. MagE has been designed
to have high throughput in the blue; the peak throughput is 22% at 5600 A
including the telescope. The wavelength coverage includes the entire optical
window (3100 A - 1 micron). The spectral resolution for a 1" slit is R~4100.
MagE is a very simple spectrograph with only four moving parts, prism
cross-dispersion, and a vacuum Schmidt camera. The instrument saw first light
in November 2007 and is now routinely taking science observations.
