Lewis Roberts (The Boeing Company), Eric Therkildsen (The Boeing Company), Shawn Haar (The Boeing Company), Doyle T. Hall (The Boeing Company)
Keywords: Adaptive optics, imaging, unresolved objects
Abstract:
The standard instrument for collecting photometry data on unresolved objects at the Maui Space Surveillance System (MSSS) is the Visible Imager, which is the science camera for the AEOS adaptive optics (AO) system. Being embedded in the AO system comes at a high cost. The Visible Imager is unable to collect light shorter than 700nm, in addition the large number of optics in the AO system steals light from Visible Imager and makes it fairly inefficient.
The Anuenue sensor avoids all of these problems by being a dedicated to collecting photometry of unresolved objects. It is located on the B29 rear Blanchard of the 1.2 m telescope at MSSS. It is capable of collecting data from 400 nm to 1000 nm at a variety of frame seeds. Even though it is located on a smaller telescope, it is more sensitive than the Visible Imager and is capable of collecting more accurate data. In addition to an overview of the sensor, we detail the operational characteristics of the sensor.
Date of Conference: September 12-15, 2007
Track: Poster