AstraLux: the calar alto lucky imaging camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hormuth, Felix ^a   Hippler, Stefan ^a   Brandner, Wolfgang ^a   Wagner, Karl ^a   Henning, Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffraction limited imaging; EMCCD; High angular resolution techniques; High speed photometry; Low light level CCD; Lucky Imaging

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION LIMITED IMAGING; EMCCD; HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES; HIGH SPEED PHOTOMETRY; LOW LIGHT LEVEL CCD; LUCKY IMAGING;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFRACTION; DIGITAL CAMERAS; INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION DAMAGE;

LIGHT;

EID: 66349138230     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.787384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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