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Using CCD’s in Introductory-Level College Astronomy Laboratories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Thomas J. Balonek*
Affiliation:
Colgate University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hamilton, New York 13346, U.S.A.

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Our university recently purchased a liquid-nitrogen-cooled CCD camera system (from Photometrics Ltd., Tucson, Arizona) which has been installed on our campus’ 40-cm multiple access (Cassegrain/Newtonian) telescope. Images are reduced online at the observatory using Photometrics’ microcomputer-based analysis software package, which includes operations for standard data acquisition and initial stages of data reduction — including corrections for bias, dark current, and flat fielding. Images are displayed on a 256-level-gray-scale black and white monitor. Additional post-processing can be done either on the CCD system’s computer at the observatory or on IBM-AT/PC’s located both at the observatory and in the laboratory.

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