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 ...

In the summer, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is due to start work in the summer, with the world's largest digital camera at ...

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 ...

Source code for operation of the CCD camera was obtained through a nondisclosure agreement with Photometrics Ltd. Instrument manufacturing for VNIR, dome mechanics and telescope optical supports was ...

There are seven major system components: optics, optical tube assembly, CCD camera, telescope mount, enclosure, environmental sensing and protection, and data acquisition. Each is described in turn in ...