[Lvas] Palomar Mountain Observatory

[Douglas Phillipson]

Phillip Krumpos wrote:
> 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?  
>   
The Mallincam with do "Live" video at 30 FPS, but at that rate it can't 
capture many photons.  This is what the other integration times are for:

7,14,28 or 56 seconds

The CCD is capturing for these times, then refreshing and throwing the 
accumulated photons away and starting over, all the while maintaining 
the most current image in a video buffer for display on a TV like device.

Doug P