SBO possesses two 8-inch diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. One is a Celestron (on ... removes the cover from the film chip. Although the camera comes with its own tracking equatorial mount, it ...

The mount includes cleverly placed carrying ... That said, it is one of the easiest to use and most fully-featured smart ...

The Celestron Heavy Duty Alt-Azimuth tripod is an ideal entry-level mounting for binoculars or small telescopes. It offers manual slow-motion controls for fine adjustments and its standard camera ...

Rubin Observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi ... and for the LSST Camera to be placed onto the telescope mount assembly next ...

The observatory houses a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain LS-200 telescope mounted on a Paramount ME equatorial mount, complete with the ST-8 CCD camera and UBVRI filter. Both Electrical Engineering and Physics ...

That camera, called LSSTCam (the telescope was originally called the Large Scale Synoptic Telescope), has 21 times the field of view of the ComCam and is a whopping 3,200-megapixel imager. Scientists ...

The high-speed camera, designed by James G. Baker, research associate at the Observatory, shows not only where the meteor is, but how fast it goes. Five more of the Super-Schmidt Meteor Cameras ...

The result? A clean bill of health and an early set of images that will only get better once the observatory gets its final, much more powerful camera later this year. "It was not just successful ...