Development of ARIES Baker-Nunn camera to a wide-field Imaging Telescope with CCD
arXiv:0905.0361
Abstract
ARIES Baker-Nunn Schmidt telescope project is converting a Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera for Astronomical research. Original Baker-Nunn camera produces an extremely large (5X30 degree) curved focal plane at the prime focus for photographic imaging. We present here the re-designing of the camera produces a wide (4 X 4 degree) flat field of view for CCD imaging observations, which have many scientific potentials in Astronomy. Imaging performance of the CCD camera is also estimated.
arXiv comment7 pages, 3 figure, Proceedings of International Conference on Trends in Optics and Photonics(IConTOP), 2009, edited by A. Ghosh and D. Choudhury, held at Kolkata, India during 1-4 March 2009, pp380-386,ISBN 978-81-908188-0-3
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