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Detector developments for small telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

David W. Latham  and
John C. Geary
David W. Latham
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
John C. Geary
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Abstract

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We describe the performance expected from a new generation of CCD imagers being developed by Tektronix, and we indicate the types of applications, instruments, and computer systems that can best take advantage of these devices on telescopes both large and small. Since these new detectors will be able to reach very faint limits even on small telescopes, we also describe cost-effective television viewing systems suitable for object acquisition and guiding.

Type
I. Telescopes and Instrumentation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 118: Instrumentation and Research Programmes for Small Telescopes , 1986 , pp. 19 - 31
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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