3.2 gigapixels: World's largest digital camera attached to its telescope
In the summer, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is due to start work in the summer, with the world's largest digital camera at ...
CU Boulder News & Events6 年
Retired 18- and 16-inch DFM Telescopes
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 ...
JSTOR Daily7 年
Millimagnitude‐Precision Photometry of Bright Stars with a 1 m Telescope and a Standard CCD
ABSTRACT This paper summarizes a three‐night observing campaign aimed at achieving millimagnitude‐precision photometry of bright stars (V < 9.0 mag) with the 1 m Swope Telescope at Las Campanas ...