A Large‐Area CCD Camera for the Schmidt Telescope at the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Vol. 114 (797) , 780-794
- https://doi.org/10.1086/341705
Abstract
We have designed, constructed, and put into operation a large‐area CCD camera that covers a large fraction of the image plane of the 1 m Schmidt telescope at Llano del Hato in Venezuela. The camera consists of 16 CCD devices arranged in a 4 × 4 mosaic covering 23 × 35 of sky. The CCDs are 2048 × 2048 LORAL devices with 15 μm pixels. The camera is optimized for drift‐scan photometry and objective‐prism spectroscopy. The design considerations, construction features, and performance parameters are described in the following paper.Keywords
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