CCD cameras for the Italian national telescope Galileo

Fabio Bortoletto; Carlotta Bonoli; Maurizio D'Alessandro; D. Fantinel; Giancarlo Farisato; Giovanni Bonanno; Pietro Bruno; Rosario Cosentino; G. Bregoli; Maurizio Comari

doi:10.1117/12.236107

25 March 1996 CCD cameras for the Italian national telescope Galileo

Fabio Bortoletto, Carlotta Bonoli, Maurizio D'Alessandro, D. Fantinel, Giancarlo Farisato, Giovanni Bonanno, Pietro Bruno, Rosario Cosentino, G. Bregoli, Maurizio Comari

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Proceedings Volume 2654, Solid State Sensor Arrays and CCD Cameras; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.236107
Event: Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1996, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In the last years, the Charge Coupled Device (CCD) detectors have had a great development: 2048 X 2048 pixel formats are routinely produced by silicon foundries with good electro- optical characteristics. Scientific CCDs now, not only offer the ability to be read from more than one output, but they can also be buttable to form mosaics in order to cover a larger field of view, requirement posed by the current telescope technology. The Italian National Telescope GALILEO (TNG) will support a large set of visual and near IR detectors dedicated to scientific measurements at the focal plane. Also tracking systems and Shack-Hartmann wavefront analyzers will be based on CCD technology. Due to the number of camera systems to be routinely operated, the possibility to have uniformed interaction and configuration of systems is emerged as an important requirement for this crucial part of the telescope. In this paper the detector and instrument plan foreseen for the TNG telescope will be presented on the first part, while on the second we will present the CCD controller, now at the end of development. Here presented is a modular system based on digital signal processors and transputer modules. It is interfaced to host computers (PCs, workstations or VME crates) via optical fibers and a specially developed VME-VSB interface board.

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Fabio Bortoletto, Carlotta Bonoli, Maurizio D'Alessandro, D. Fantinel, Giancarlo Farisato, Giovanni Bonanno, Pietro Bruno, Rosario Cosentino, G. Bregoli, and Maurizio Comari "CCD cameras for the Italian national telescope Galileo", Proc. SPIE 2654, Solid State Sensor Arrays and CCD Cameras, (25 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.236107

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