SALTICAM: A $0.5 M acquisition camera: Every big telescope should have one

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 465-476

  O'Donoghue, Darragh ^a   Bauermeister, Etienne ^a   Carter, Dave B ^a   Evans, Geoff P ^a   Koorts, Willie P ^a   O'Connor, James ^a   Osman, Faranah ^a   Van der Merwe, Stan ^a   Bigelow, Bruce C ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

^b Opto Mech Research and Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition camera; Commissioning instrument; High time resolution; UV optics

Indexed keywords

CRYOSTATS; IMAGE SENSORS; LENSES; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

ACQUISITION CAMERAS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 0038752036     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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