CFHT's SkyProbe: A real-time sky-transparency monitor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4844, Issue , 2002, Pages 501-507

  Cuillandre, Jean Charles ^a   Magnier, Eugene A ^a   Isani, Sidik ^a   Sabin, Dan ^a   Knight, Wiley ^a   Kras, Simon ^a   Lai, Kamson ^a  

^a CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: detectors; Methods: data analysis; Site testing; Techniques: photometric

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037966949     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460613     Document Type: Conference Paper

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