The ultracam camera control and data acquisition system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 218-229

  Beard, Steven ^a   Vick, Andrew ^a   Atkinson, David ^a   Dhillon, Vik ^b   Marsh, Tom ^c   McLay, Stewart ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b   Tierney, Chris ^a  

^a UK Astronomy Technology Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imaging; Instrumentation; Photometry; Time resolution; Ultracam

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; HTTP; PHOTOMETRY; SCADA SYSTEMS; TELESCOPES; XML;

INSTRUMENTATION; TIME RESOLUTION; ULTRACAM CAMERA CONTROL; UNIVERSAL TIME;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0036986202     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461354     Document Type: Conference Paper

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