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Short Camera

The short camera provides a field of view of 27 x 27 arc-min2, at a plate scale of 5 pixels/arc-sec, or 0.200 arc-sec/pixel. The camera consists of 9 elements, including three aspheric surfaces, arranged in a [2-1-3-2-1] grouping. The design parameters for the short camera are:



field of view: 27 x 27 arc-min 729 arc-min2
focal length: 355.6 mm (14.00 inches)
scale: 0.200 arc-sec/px 5 pixels/arc-sec
0.0133 arc-sec/micron 75 microns/arc-sec
number of elements: 9
number of aspheres: 3
number of CaF2: 3
max. CaF2 dia.: 312 mm (12.27 inches)



 

Bruce Bigelow
1998-05-21