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I took this picture using a HUGE telescope of 1Meter diameter, and a liquid nitrogen cooled CCD imager.
This picture was featrued in the Tel-Aviv University news page of Wise obeservatory in 2002: [link] [link] From the article: The moon, as observed on 26/Nov/2002 with the Wise 1m telescope using the new MAALA camera (also referred to as the "Reimager"). The image illustrates the camera's wide field of view (34x68 arcmin^2) which easily accomodates the moon's disk. The optics of MAALA consist of 14 large custom-made lenses that first collimate the telescope's f/7 beam into a parallel beam, and then focus it in an f/3.056 beam onto a detector. The detector is a back-illuminated SITe 4096x2048 pixel CCD. This image was obtained by Oded Sharon , Ezra Mashal, and Dan Maoz, as part of the testing and comissioning of the new camera. |
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My dad worked for SITe until he showed up to see an eviction notice on the door.
It really is a shame the operation folded. They made some good sensors. (or so my dad says, hehe
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