‘[Howell’s] broad experience in CCD astronomy is evident throughout the book ... provides a compact and very readable account of all the practical aspects of CCD cameras. …aimed both at the 'fresh' ...

Using dedicated CCD cameras requires the usual methods associated with deep-sky astrophotography, such as using dark frames and flat fields to fully calibrate the images before processing.

As there are many more amateur than professional astronomers, and many have the kinds of telescopes and CCD cameras needed to measure the fading brilliance of a gamma-ray burst, the odds are that ...

Charge-coupled-device cameras are a vital component of many applications involving digital imaging. Neil Savage presents a summary of some of the latest products. Cameras based on charge-coupled ...

The author installs an Atik 16200 CCD (at the right of image ... This becomes apparent when inserting the camera and corrector assembly into the drawtube of the telescope. What I found surprising ...

Although mostly replaced by CMOS sensors to capture images in cameras, camcorders and scanners, CCDs are still used in astronomy, microscopy and biomedical imaging because of their excellent ...

Digital telescopes use a CCD or CMOS array ... in the case of its middle-infrared spectrograph and camera (MIRI), and a mercury-cadmium-telluride CMOS array for Webb's near-infrared NIRCam.

McKim is also well equipped with modern instruments, including five Celestron 8-inch and one Celestron 11-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes, an SBIG ST-6 CCD camera, a webcam, equipment for ...

CCD cameras are sufficiently sensitive to UV radiation ... and nondestructive testing. They also find work in astronomy, UV spectroscopy, food processing, mining, fire detection, and sterilization.

Existing Oct CCD cameras are not built for the new uses that they are being championed for. The medical field in particular wants to use them to improve aspects of patient care such as functional ...

Research resources for astronomy students in the physics department include telescopes as well as a spectrometer and CCD camera. All students in the astronomy minor complete a senior thesis project, ...