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Article: Bringing Sophisticated CCD Imaging to Short Focal Length Amateur Astronomy.(computer aided imagery)(Brief Article)
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- Advanced Imaging
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
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THE CHALLENGE
For the legions of amateur, prosumer astronomers across the globe, some key imaging tasks have always been virtually out of bounds on a Big Bang for the Buck" basis. The short focal length optical systems used by these astronomers have had limited capabilities in speed, color conversion, and image batching--and there has been no clear and affordable starting point for eventual upgrading of capabilities to open this market to electronic imaging.
THE SOLUTION
A veteran R&D and OEM astronomical imaging firm, which has supplied systems to the likes of NASA, the JPL, and Los Alamos and Lawrence ...