OmegaCAM: Wide-field imaging with fine spatial resolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 484-493

  Kuijken, K ^a,b   Bender, R ^c   Cappellaro, E ^d   Muschielok, B ^c   Baruffolo, A ^e   Cascone, E ^d   Hess, H J ^c   Iwert, O ^f   Nicklas, H ^g   Reif, K ^h   Valentijn, E A ^b   Baade, D ^f   Begeman, K G ^b   Bortolussi, A ^e   Boxhoorn, D ^b   Christen, F ^b,f   Deul, E R ^a   Greggio, L ^e   Harke, R ^g   Hafner R ^c   Hopp, U ^c   Ilijevski, I ^c   Klink, G ^h   Kravcar, H ^c   Magagna, C E ^e   Mitsch, W ^c   Muller Ph ^h   Poschmann, H ^h   Rengelink, R ^a   Wellem, W ^g   more..

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAPODIMONTE   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^f EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Imager; Survey system; VLT VST; Wide field system

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURVEY SYSTEMS; VLT/VST; WIDE-FIELD SYSTEMS;

ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SOLAR SYSTEM; TELESCOPES;

CAMERAS;

EID: 10444280841     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550892     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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