The pixels in the CCD are a whopping 10 micrometers across ... for golf balls but at ancient stars and galaxies. This camera and the telescope it powers will figure heavily in the Department ...

Cameras based on charge-coupled-device (CCD) detectors are continuing to prove ... caused by atmospheric turbulence, to adjust their telescope mirrors in real time. “It's basically the best ...

The most commonly-used and convenient arrangement for CCD imaging was the piggy-back telescope mode. In this configuration, observers were still free to use the main telescope for visual eyepiece ...

A giant new telescope in Chile has opened its eyes ... Rubin's first engineering image is a nine-panel square that used nine CCD camera sensors to capture a 144-megapixel view of the sky that ...

the 24-inch now utilizes CCD electronic technology to achieve the same results: astroimaging, spectroscopy, and photometry. For the first eight years of its life, the 24-inch was the sole telescope at ...

ABSTRACT. A simple camera with electron-multiplication CCD, fast frame rate, and a pixel scale of 15 mas is described. This instrument was tested at the SOAR 4-m telescope in the ...

The Joseph R. Lynch Observatory houses a 16-inch Meade Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope equipped with SBIG CCD camera. Drexel faculty and students actively analyze data from the Sloan Digital Survey, ...