Optical design of the comet Shoemaker-Levy speckle camera

Conference · Mon Nov 14 23:00:00 EST 1994

OSTI ID:145952

Bissinger, H ^[1]

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1. Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)

An optical design is presented in which the Lick 3 meter telescope and a bare CCD speckle camera system was used to image the collision sites of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet with the Planet Jupiter. The brief overview includes of the optical constraints and system layout. The choice of a Risley prism combination to compensate for the time dependent atmospheric chromatic changes are described. Plate scale and signal-to-noise ratio curves resulting from imaging reference stars are compared with theory. Comparisons between un-corrected and reconstructed images of Jupiter`s impact sites. The results confirm that speckle imaging techniques can be used over an extended time period to provide a method to image large extended objects.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 145952
• Report Number(s): CONF-9411140--Absts.; ON: DE95017252
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
ASTRONOMY
COMETS
IMAGES
IMPACT SHOCK
JUPITER PLANET
OPTICAL SYSTEMS
SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
TELESCOPES