Plans for a fast image recording system at ESO
Abstract
A 256 diode-array will be installed as detector on the ESO OPTRONICS S-3000 measuring machine in order to increase the acquisition rate. A high intensity LED will be used as light source in a pulse mode. The data will be stored on a random access mass storage device as density values for later education. The scanning time for a 30 cm x 30 cm plate with a step size of 10 micron will be less than 10 hours while the dynamic range of the data is expected to be 2.5 density units with an offset of at least 1 unit.
- Publication:
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Astronomical Microdensitometry Conference
- Pub Date:
- July 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984asmd.conf..317G
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Photography;
- Data Acquisition;
- Image Processing;
- Microdensitometers;
- Photodiodes;
- Arrays;
- Photographic Plates;
- Random Access Memory;
- Rates (Per Time);
- Scanning;
- Instrumentation and Photography