[Lvas] Palomar Mountain Observatory

[Phillip Krumpos]

Reading through Dr. Law's doctorial thesis, he states that for the 2.5 meter telescope that he was using, 30 frames per second was optimum.  My question is, how many frames per second does the Mallincam take?  

Oh, did Roy Hanson get his new Mallincam?   
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  From: Martin Suñer Hilario 
  To: Las Vegas Astronomical Society 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [Lvas] Palomar Mountain Observatory


  [The camera takes 20 or more shots per second.  A computer selects the best images and combines them into a single, clearer view.]

  Phil, that Cambridge "Lucky Camera" looks a little bit like another camera we know lol.

  http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/IMGP0207-sm.jpg 

  http://www.khanscope.com/images/products/1320-icon.jpg


  Here is a link to Nicholas Law's postdoc about adaptive optics (ao) and speckle imaging at Cambridge/Caltech/Palomar. I hope you enjoy it as well. 

  POSTDOC:http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/nlaw_lucky_thesis.pdf
  HIS WEBPAGE: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~nlaw/

  martin


  On Jan 2, 2008 8:47 PM, Phillip Krumpos < PhilJ1945 at cox.net> wrote:

    In the recent special issue of "Astronomy", there was a short article about Palomar's new optics that produces visible-light images twice as sharp as those of the Hubble Space Telescope.  They have added a system that measures atmospheric distortion along the telescope's line of sight and physically deforms a mirror to counteract them.  They have coupled this system up with a new camera developed at the University of Cambridge in England.  The camera takes 20 or more shots per second.  A computer selects the best images and combines them into a single, clearer view.

    Wow, it is amazing what technology can do. 

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