A Large Area CCD Camera for the Schmidt Telescope at the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory

Details A Large Area CCD Camera for the Schmidt Telescope at the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory A Large Area CCD Camera for the Schmidt Telescope at the Venezuelan National Astronomical Observatory

2002-04-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204265v1

Publ.Astron.Soc.Pac.114:780-794,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages, 18 figures, accepted for publication in PASP

Scientific paper

10.1086/341705

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 meter Schmidt telescope at Llano del Hato in Venezuela. The camera consists of 16 CCD devices arranged in a 4 x 4 mosaic covering 2.3 degrees x 3.5 degrees of sky. The CCDs are 2048 x 2048 LORAL devices with 15 micron 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 article.

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