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 ...

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 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 ...