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A Universal Microphotometer by a Rotating Slit: Brief Description and Use in Astronomical Tasks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

P. Kotrč  and
J. Zicha
P. Kotrč
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 251 65, Ondřejov, Czech Republic
J. Zicha
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Horská 3, 128 00, Praha 2, Czech Republic

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Several types of fast digitization devices consisting of CCD cameras and frame grabbers have appeared and been implemented in astronomical practice during the last decade. Nevertheless, various types of classical scanning devices are still used for precise digitization of astronomical images and spectrograms. Among them, a new type of microphotometer with a rotating slit (UMF) was adjusted and installed at the Ondřejov Observatory (Zicha et al. 1992). Technical parameters of the device are as follows:

Type
Part Four: Digitised Wide-Field Surveys
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 161: Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging , 1994 , pp. 185 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

References

Zicha, J., Kotrč, P., Klvaňa, M. and Knížek, M., 1992. IAU Working Group on Wide-field Imaging, Newsletter No. 2, ed. MacGillivray, H.T., Royal Observatory Edinburgh, p. 72.Google Scholar