Design of the OmegaCAM instrument software

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4848, Issue , 2002, Pages 336-345

  Baruffolo, Andrea ^a   Bortolussi, Alessandro ^a   De Pizzol, Luigi ^a   Magagna, Carlo E ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoguiding software; Image analysis; Instrument control software; VLT; VST; Wide field imager

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATORIES;

AUTOGUIDING SOFTWARE; INSTRUMENT CONTROL SOFTWARE; WIDE FIELD IMAGER;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036988455     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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