Useful links
Boogert's Astro pages
General concepts
- Understand camera
- Understand telescope
- Understand flats
- Targets
Camera
- CCD model:- ST-8XM8
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- USB interfacing
- Utlises Maxim DL Software for Hardware/Software integration
- Area:- 1530x1020
- Pixel Size:- 9 x 9 um
- Chip Size:- 13.8 x 9.2 mm
- Gain:- 2.39
- Bits:- 16bit
- Field of View:- 18.7' x 12.4'
- Plate Scale:- 0.61 arcsec/px
- CCD Detector Image Generation Steps[1]
- Charge Generation (Photoelectric Effect)
- Charge Collection (Photoelectrons collected via collection sites, collections sites are defined by electrode arrays formed on the CCD these are called gates)
- Charge Transfer (Voltage manipulation of gates so that electrons move down vertical registers one pixel at a time)
- Charge Detection
- cooled camera - looking at effects of cooling for picture clairty (Semi conductor.. eletron.. fermi distribution)
'maxim DL' for control of camera
- Power on camera
- Start maximDL
- Select 'Camera' Icon
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Keywords
- Light, bias, dark, flat shots
Data and logs
Dark log book
References
(1) CCD ST-8XME Manual June 2004, Retrieved(16/10/2013)
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RyanCheale - 16 Oct 2013