Multi-objective transforming telescope for wide-field optical monitoring of the sky with high-temporal resolution

Grigory Beskin; Sergey Bondar; Sergey Karpov; Vladimir Plokhotnichenko; Adriano Guarnieri; Corrado Bartolini; Giuseppe Greco

doi:10.1117/12.858074

28 July 2010 Multi-objective transforming telescope for wide-field optical monitoring of the sky with high-temporal resolution

Grigory Beskin, Sergey Bondar, Sergey Karpov, Vladimir Plokhotnichenko, Adriano Guarnieri, Corrado Bartolini, Giuseppe Greco

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Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 77330V (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858074
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We present the design of a MegaTORTORA telescope (and its prototype, mini-MegaTORTORA, presently in construction at Special Astrophysical Observatory) - modular, multi-purpose, scalable grid of optical cameras based on commercially available objectives and fast CCDs, able to operate with sub-second temporal resolution in both wide-field monitoring regime with all objectives observing different regions of the sky as well as in narrow-field follow-up mode with co-aligned channels and installed color and polarimetric filters for detailed investigation of selected objects, and to change the regime of operation on a sub-second time scale.

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Grigory Beskin, Sergey Bondar, Sergey Karpov, Vladimir Plokhotnichenko, Adriano Guarnieri, Corrado Bartolini, and Giuseppe Greco "Multi-objective transforming telescope for wide-field optical monitoring of the sky with high-temporal resolution", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 77330V (28 July 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858074

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