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A CCD offset guider for the KAOWe describe a focal plane guider for the Kuiper Airborne Observatory which consists of a CCD camera interfaced to an AMIGA personal computer. The camera is made by Photometrics Ltd. and utilizes a Thomson 576 x 384 pixel CCD chip operated in Frame Transfer mode. Custom optics produce a scale of 2.4 arc-sec/pixel, yielding an approx. 12 ft. diameter field of view. Chopped images of stars with HST Guide Star Catalog magnitudes fainter than 14 have been used for guiding at readout rates greater than or equal to 0.5 Hz. The software includes automatic map generation, subframing and zooming, and correction for field rotation when two stars are in the field of view.
Document ID
19960003698
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Colgan, Sean W. J.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Erickson, Edwin F.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Haynes, Fredric B.
(Nimbus Software Citrus Heights, CA., United States)
Rank, David M.
(California Univ. Santa Cruz, CA., United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1995
Publication Information
Publication: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Airborne Astronomy Symposium on the Galactic Ecosystem: From Gas to Stars to Dust, Volume 73
Subject Category
Instrumentation And Photography
Accession Number
96N13708
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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