Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2002
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 2.°3 × 3.°5 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.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
First Page
780
Last Page
794
Recommended Citation
Baltay, C., Snyder, J., Andrews, P., Emmet, W., Schaefer, B., Sinnott, J., Bailyn, C., Coppi, P., Oemler, A., Sabbey, C., Sofia, S., Van Altena, W., Vivas, A., Abad, C., Bongiovanni, A., Briceño, C., Bruzual, G., Prugna, F., Magris, G., Sánchez, G., Sánchez, G., Schenner, H., Stock, J., Adams, B., Gebhard, M., Honeycutt, R., Musser, J., Rengstorff, A., Ferrin, I., Fuenmayor, F., Hernandez, J., Naranjo, O., & Rosenzweig, P. (2002). A large-area CCD camera for the Schmidt telescope at the venezuelan national astronomical observatory. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 114 (797), 780-794. https://doi.org/10.1086/341705