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CCD Observations from the Centre of a City: Use in Astronomical Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

N. R. Lomb
N. R. Lomb*
Affiliation:
Sydney Observatory, PO Box K346 Haymarket, NSW 2000
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Abstract

One of the two main telescopes at Sydney Observatory is a computer-controlled 35.6-cm Celestron. It is used with a television-type system. There is an integrating CCD camera available as well as an ordinary TV camera for bright objects. The images from the cameras can be shown in the Observatory’s lecture room. They are first put through an image processor which allows constant enhancement, spatial filtering and the recording of images for use on cloudy nights. Preliminary results are encouraging, and show the value of the system, even in Sydney’s highly light-polluted sky.

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Education
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , 1991 , pp. 340 - 341
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1991

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Fienberg, R. T., 1989, Sky & Telescope, 78, 257.Google Scholar
Lomb, N. R., 1989, in Proc. Communicating Astronomy to the Public, Lomb, N.R. (ed), Australian Astronomy and Space Exploration Liaison Group Newsletter No. 15.Google Scholar