The acquisition mode of the Halley Multicolor Camera for the Giotto mission

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Cameras, Color Photography, Giotto Mission, Halley'S Comet, Spaceborne Photography, Systems Engineering, Charge Coupled Devices, Comet Nuclei, Computerized Simulation, Data Acquisition, Focal Plane Devices, Photometers, Trajectory Analysis

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The design and testing of the acquisition program for the Halley Multicolor Camera (HMC) to be flown on the Giotto mission to Halley's comet (scheduled a launch by Ariane in July, 1985) one reported. The HMC comprises a 1-m telescope with an aspect angle of 0.573 deg and a masked-CCD-array photodetector and will observe the surface of the comet nucleus from 1000 km with a resolution of 3 m/pixel; the acquisition-mode sensor is a Reticon with aspect angle 1.6 deg. The acquisition process is examined analytically: the trajectory of the comet image in the focal plane is described, and a technique is developed to determine the comet parameters by correlating the coordinates of 'hits' on the Reticon. The structure of the acquisition program is explained, and the results of a computer simulation are presented graphically.

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