FastCam: a new lucky imaging instrument for medium-sized telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Oscoz, Alejandro ^a   Rebolo, Rafael ^a   Lopez, Roberto ^a   Perez Garridob, Antonio ^b   Perez, Jorge Andres ^a   Hildebrandt, Luis Fernando ^a   Piqueras, Juan Jose ^a   Villo, Isidro ^b   Gonzalez, Jose Miguel ^c   Barenna, Rafael ^a   Gomez, Gabriel ^c   Garcia, Anibal ^a   Montanes, Pilar ^a   Rosenberg, Alfred ^a   Cadavid, Emilio ^a   Calcines, Ariadna ^a   Diaz Sanchez, Anastasio ^b   Kohley, Ralf ^c   Martin, Yolanda ^a   Penate, Jose ^a   Sanchez, Vicente ^a   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^c Cuesta de San Jose s/n ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

High resolution imaging; Lucky Imaging; New instruments; Real time processing

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITS; FAST READOUT; GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGING; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION IMAGES; LUCKY IMAGING; NEW INSTRUMENT; NEW INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL WAVELENGTH; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME PROCESSING; VERY LOW NOISE;

ANALYTIC EQUIPMENT; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BUILDINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; METRIC SYSTEM; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66249091994     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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