The most commonly-used and convenient arrangement for CCD imaging was the piggy-back telescope mode. In this configuration, observers were still free to use the main telescope for visual eyepiece ...
That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...
The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite, orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. EPIC is only positioned to ...
UK astrophotographer Josh Dury on night-sky success, his passion for documenting natural skies, a brand-new book and an ...
the 24-inch now utilizes CCD electronic technology to achieve the same results: astroimaging, spectroscopy, and photometry. For the first eight years of its life, the 24-inch was the sole telescope at ...
A giant new telescope in Chile has opened its eyes ... Rubin's first engineering image is a nine-panel square that used nine CCD camera sensors to capture a 144-megapixel view of the sky that ...