The SOAR optical imager

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 286-294

  Walker, Alistair R ^a   Ashe, Michael ^b,c   Boccas, Maxime ^d   Bonati, Marco ^e   Delgado, Francisco ^a   Galvez, Ramon ^a   Martinez, Manuel ^a   Schurter, Patrick ^a   Schmidt, Ricardo ^a   Tighe, Roberto ^a  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Imaginetics   (United States)

^c Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Corp   (United States)

^d GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCDs; Imaging; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; PHOTOMETRY; SENSORS;

OPTICAL IMAGER;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038296969     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457977     Document Type: Article

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