Intensifiers: A Low Cost Solution for Observing Faint Double Stars?
Abstract
Intensifier tubes have commonly been used for night vision, but could have potential to be a low cost solution to telescopes observing faint stars. Four total generations of intensifiers have been produced, but only Generations 2 and 3 show promise for Astrometric research due to the development of the microchannel plate and more efficient photocathodes. Although these intensifier tubes have potential to improve the performance of telescopes using speckle imaging, a new low cost CMOS camera is able to perform as well as we had hoped the intensifier could.
- Publication:
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Journal of Double Star Observations
- Pub Date:
- March 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016JDSO...12..227H