A prime focus camera for the Discovery Channel Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 3, 2004, Pages 1471-1478

  Dunham, E W ^a   Sebring, T A ^a  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD; DCT; Discovery Channel; Focal plane array; Wide field

Indexed keywords

DISCOVERY CHANNEL; DISCOVERY CHANNEL TELESCOPE (DCT); FOCAL PLANE ARRAY; WIDE-FIELD;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; DETECTORS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PHOTOMETRY; TELESCOPES;

CAMERAS;

EID: 10444246611     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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