Charge-coupled-device cameras are a vital component ... for instance, CCDs that use electron-multiplying technology (EM-CCD) to amplify detection of small numbers of photons are popular in life ...

Two digital holograms (one hologram per wavelength) are employed to get the phase of the segmented telescope for a longer synthetic wavelength by the digital holographic approach. The holograms are ...

The entire system was designed as an economical robotic facility to be installed at remote sites throughout the world. There are seven major system components: optics, optical tube assembly, CCD ...

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 ...

A giant new telescope in Chile has ... it as the "world's largest digital camera." Rubin's first engineering image is a nine-panel square that used nine CCD camera sensors to capture a 144 ...

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 ...