MCCD Upgrade

Background and Ideas

  • Ideas 26-Feb-1998
  • Design issues, 29-June-1998
  • Design issues, 21-December-1998
  • Science Goals
  • Science Requirements
  • Instrument Requirements
  • Talk with Photometrics on CCD camera, 04-June-1999
  • Talk with Photometrics on CCD camera, 10-June-1999
  • Description of existing MCCD software
  • Plan for Optics Upgrade (04/25/00)

    • Photographs of MCCD Components

  • Optical benches from east
  • Optical benches from west
  • Optical benches from west, different exposure
  • Optical benches from west, wide angle, with measurements
  • Slit monitor path from southwest
  • Final lens and slit pickoff mirror
  • Top bench from south
  • Top bench from southwest
  • O2 lens focus drive mechanism. Also shows the Lyot stop.
  • Another view of the O2 drive
  • The O2 drive motor and gearbox.
  • Coude mirror RA axis motor and encoder
  • Coude mirror declination axis motor, encoder

    • Technical Information

  • CCD chip specs
  • CCD camera specs

    • Data Handling

  • Data compression

    • Email Archive

    A Hypermail archive of communications between people working on the issues listed above is maintained here, to record various hypotheses, tests and modifications.

    Last modified: Fri Feb 9 15:17:50 HST 2001