Cameras based on charge-coupled-device (CCD) detectors are continuing to prove ... caused by atmospheric turbulence, to adjust their telescope mirrors in real time. “It's basically the best ...

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...

Here is a summary of the telescopes and associated instruments: Celestron C14 Schmidt-Cassegrain reflecting telescope with SBIG STXL CCD Camera, integrated filter wheel and UVBRI filter set. This is ...

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 ...

118, No. 843 (May 2006), pp. 716-721 (6 pages) ABSTRACT This paper summarizes a three‐night observing campaign aimed at achieving millimagnitude‐precision photometry of bright stars (V < 9.0 mag) with ...

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 ...