Sinistro camera has astronomical first light Our first 'homemade' camera, the Sinistro achieved first light on our 1-meter telescope in Santa Barbara last night. It was entirely designed by our optical and imaging engineers and was constructed in the LCOGT image lab. It has been 6 years in the making, so was a big relief for everyone on Team Sinistro, when the camera was mounted and took its first astronomical image (click on the inset image for a larger view).
CCDs Discipline: Education Charge coupled devices, or CCDs, are sensitive detectors of photons that can be used in telescopes instead of film or photographic plates to produce images. CCDs were invented in the late 1960s and are now used in digital cameras, photocopiers and many other devices. Its inventors, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith received the Nobel Prize in physics in 2009 for their work.Tags: CCDcharge-coupled device
How Telescopes Work Discipline: Education This guide describes how telescopes work. Telescopes are the fundamental tool in observational astronomy, and understanding their capabilities and limitations is central to understanding what we can learn from them. Tags: spectraopticsseeingrefractingreflectingCCDspectrographfield of viewangular resolution
