Optical design of the CCD/Transit Instrument with Innovative Instrumentation (CTI-II) Telescope

Mark R. Ackermann; John T. McGraw; Malcolm J. MacFarlane; Tom Williams; Peter Zimmer; Walter Gerstle; Francisco Roybal

doi:10.1117/12.856066

28 July 2010 Optical design of the CCD/Transit Instrument with Innovative Instrumentation (CTI-II) Telescope

Mark R. Ackermann, John T. McGraw, Malcolm J. MacFarlane, Tom Williams, Peter Zimmer, Walter Gerstle, Francisco Roybal

Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 773311 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856066
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We describe a 1p8m f/6 Cassegrain optical system that creates a 1.42° FOV with near diffraction limited images from 400nm to 1100nm with full-field distortion less than 0.01%. The astronomical application for this optical system is the CCD/Transit Instrument with Innovative Instrumentation (CTI-II), designed to produce a highly precise photometric and astrometric survey of a complete strip of sky in the northern hemisphere. We describe the scientific observation program and supporting optical design for the telescope. The all-spherical, five lens field corrector represents a very capable optical system that works well with many other astronomical telescopes such as SDSS, Pan-STARRS, SkyMapper, ESO's VST, the WIYN ODI, and the MMT WFC. In many cases, using a five lens corrector exceeded the optical performance of the original published system designs. Conversely, these and other optical concepts compromised the performance of the CTI-II design. The CTI-II design is similar to many other wide-field telescope and imaging camera designs, thus the design is of potential general use in astronomy.

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Mark R. Ackermann, John T. McGraw, Malcolm J. MacFarlane, Tom Williams, Peter Zimmer, Walter Gerstle, and Francisco Roybal "Optical design of the CCD/Transit Instrument with Innovative Instrumentation (CTI-II) Telescope", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 773311 (28 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856066

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