The design of 2K×2K high performance CCD camera for astronomical imaging

Author

Shang, Yuanyuan ; Guan, Yong ; Ma, Sen ; Song, Yu

Author_Institution

Inf. Eng. Coll., Capital Normal Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

131

Abstract

This paper describes the design of high performance 2K times 2K CCD camera that is part of the Halpha imaging system to be used in Space Solar Telescope. The camera is composed of analog system and the digital embedded system integrated with a NIOSII soft-core processor. Performance evaluation results of the camera are also shown in this paper. In addition, experimental observations of solar phenomena using this CCD camera were carried out with Halpha solar telescope in Huairou Solar Observation Station, Chinese Academy of Science. Solar flare and sunspot were successfully observed. Test observation results show a favorable aspect of this high performance CCD camera in high temporal resolution astronomical imaging.

Keywords

astronomical telescopes; charge-coupled devices; solar flares; sunspots; 2Ktimes2K CCD camera; Halpha imaging system; Halpha solar telescope; NIOSII soft-core processor; Space Solar Telescope; analog system; astronomical imaging; digital embedded system; solar flare; Charge coupled devices; Charge-coupled image sensors; Circuits; Clocks; Control systems; Digital cameras; Embedded system; High-resolution imaging; Optical imaging; Telescopes; CCD; Embedded System; Imaging System; Solar Flare;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Imaging Systems and Techniques, 2008. IST 2008. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Crete

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2496-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2497-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IST.2008.4659955

Filename

4659955