Speckle imaging of satellites at the Air Force Maui Optical Station

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Artificial Satellites, Autocorrelation, Charge Coupled Devices, Image Processing, Image Reconstruction, Imaging Techniques, Speckle Patterns, Telescopes, Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope

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We performed a series of experiments using the Air Force Maui Optical Station's 1.6 m telescope and a bare CCD detector to capture speckle images of various satellites. The speckle images were processed with bispectral techniques for recovering image Fourier phase as well as projection onto convex sets for recovering image Fourier magnitude from the projected autocorrelation. Results of imaging point stars and binaries are shown as a baseline assessment of our techniques. We have reconstructed high quality images of numerous satellites and will show reconstructions of a very familiar satellite: the Hubble Space Telescope. To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of the use of bare CCD's for speckle imaging of relatively bright objects such as artificial satellites.

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