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A SCANNING CCD DETECTOR FOR SOLAR ECLIPSE OBSERVATIONS

  • YERSHOV V. N.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.385-386
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    • 1996
  • A wide-field CCD detector for solar eclipse observations is discussed. The CCD is supposed to be of a moderate size, and the image of the corona is obtained by scanning the field of view. Results of the 1995 solar eclipse observation are shown which have been made with a prototype of the scanning CCD detector.

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CCD OBSERVATIONS OF SOME VARIABLE STARS (CCD를 이용한 변광성의 측광관측)

  • 정장해;이용삼;이충욱;양감징
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.185-195
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    • 1994
  • Using $1024\times1024$ pixels CCD camera of ChungBuk National University Observatory (CBNUO), 62 photometric observations were made on January 11-12, 1993. A time of minimum lights of U Cep was determined as JD Hel 2448999.7274 from our data. On October 21-22 in 1993, CCD photometry in V and R for GW Cephei and V700 Cygni was carried out with 309${\times}$584 pixels cooled CCD system of Behlen Observatory, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (BOUNL) and 168 observations were obtained. From the data times of minimum lights JD Hel 2449282.8485 for GW Cep and JD Hel 2449282.7979 were determined. To developed a new CCD system of CBNUO, the CCD photometry method using at CBNUO is compared with at BOUNL.

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AUTOMATION OF ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE: II. DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNIQUES, EQUIPMENTS AND SOFTWARES FOR REMOTE CONTROL OF TELESCOPE (천체 망원경의 자동화: II. 망원경 원격 조종 기술, 장비 및 소프트웨어의 개발)

  • Kang, Yong-Woo;Lee, Hyeong-Mok
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.57-73
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    • 1996
  • As a continuing effort to develop an automatic control system for small telescope, we developed the software for telescope control and CCD observations under DOS operating system. For accurate pointing of the telescope in short amount of time, we modelled the angular speed of the telescope by aquadratic function of time (constant acceleration) for the first 15 second and then linear function of time (zero acceleration) aftwewards. By changing the telescope speed from 'slew' to 'fine' before the telescope reaches the desired position, we could achieve the accuracy of a few arcsecond. The CCD control software was written for model CCD-10 of CCD Technology. This CCD can be used for guiding purposes. We also conducted the study for remote control of the telescope using telephone line. Although it cannot be used for real observations at the present form, we succeded in remotely pointing the telescope to desired direction. As faster communication technologies become widely available, simple observations can be made remotely in the near future. Finally we report some observational results made with the present control system.

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BVR Standardization of the CCD Photometric System of Chungbuk National University Observatory (충북대학교 천문대 CCD 측광계웨 BVR 표준화)

  • Jeong, Jang-Hae;Lee, Yong-Sam;Kim, Chun-Hwey;Yoon, Yo-Na
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.157-170
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    • 2009
  • BVR observations for 52 standard stars were performed using the 1-m reflecter with 2K CCD System of Chungbuk National University Observatory (CBNUO) in 2008. We obtained 1,322 CCD images to establish a correlation between our bvr system and the standard Johnson-Cousins BVR system. We derived the tentative equations of transformation between then as follows; V = v-0.0303(B - V) + 0.0466 B - V = 1.3475(b - v) - 0.0251 V - R = 1.0641(v - r) - 0.0125 Using these equations the magnitudes in V, B-V, and V-R for 197 stars were obtained.

DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEM SOFTWARE FOR ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS BY CCD PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM IN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY (CCD를 이용한 경희대학교 천문대 관측시스템 소프트웨어개발)

  • Jin, Ho;Kim, Gap-Seong
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.101-110
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    • 1994
  • We have investigated intensively an optical telescope with 76cm diameter and CCD camera system in astronomical observatory of Kyung Hee university, in order to maximize instrumental functions of our observational equipments and to construct a more reliable photometric system. And computer softwares AUTO DOME, KH CCD and KH PHO for astronomical image observations and their automatic photometries with high accuracy have been made for observers w use our observational system conveniently and efficiently. Throughout careful examinations of these programs, it has been proved that the observing time by our program is shorter than that by manual operations, so that, fast and accurate observations can be executed with ease. For open cluster NGC 7063 observed with S/N value of 350 or more by KH PHO, we have found the magnitude measurements of 11 object stars would show 0.007 magnitude difference, comparing with magnitude data from IRAF/APPHOT. From automatic photometry of eclipsing binary, AB And observed by our software, total 220 data points with good quality have been acquired during 8 hours and so we could make a better light curve than that obtained from any observational results by domestic photoelectric photometry system.

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PLATE-TO-CCD CONVERTOR. : II. SURFACE PHOTOMETRY OF EARLY TYPET GALAXIES (사진건판-CCD 화상변환장치. : II. 타원은하의 표면측광)

  • Kim, Dong-Woo
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.31-55
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    • 1995
  • We have developed a new device, Plate-to-CCD Convertor (PCC), to conveniently digitize photographic plates in a relatively short time without losing any plate information (Oh et al. 1995). Using this device we have performed surface photometry of 12 early type galaxies. We determined relative orientations and scales to analyze PCC images. We also determined an ellipticity, position angle of the major axis, and $a_4$ of each galaxy to quantify the distribution of surface brightness. We checked the performance and limitation of this device by comparing the PCC images with those digitized by the ST microdensitometer and those obtained with CCD observations.

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LIGHT CURVE ANALYSIS OF CONTACT BINARY SYSTEM V523 CASSIOPEIAE (접촉쌍성 V523 CAS의 광도곡선 분석)

  • 김진희;정장해
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.263-272
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    • 2002
  • A total of 616 observations (308 in B, 308 in V) to. V523 Cas was made on three nights from October 19 to 21 in 1999 using the 1.8m telescope with 2K CCD camera of the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory of KAO. With our data we constructed the BV light curves and determined 4 times of minimum light. We also obtained physical parameters of the system by combined analysis of both light and radial velocity curves using the Wilson-Devinney code.

PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CCD OBSERVATIONS OF THE NEARBY CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES

  • KURTANIDZE OMAR M.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.29 no.spc1
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    • pp.61-62
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    • 1996
  • The photometry is reported for galaxies in two clusters A1983, 2065 with redshifts 0.046, 0.072 respectively. The luminosity segregation is observed only within a magnitude from the brightest galaxy. The alignment of the galaxy major axis is observed in the Corona Borealis cluster. The intermediate distance clusters (0.05 < z < 0.15) will be studied by CCD mounted on 125cm RCh and 70cm meniscus type telescopes.

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Manufacture of an Acousto-Optical Spectrometer for Radio Astronomical Observations (우주전파관측용 음향광학 전파분광기의 제작)

  • 임인성;최재현;오승엽
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 1997
  • The acousto-optical spectrometer as a new type backend of the receiver system for radio astronomical observations is manufactured for radio signal analysis. We studied on the effect of Acousto-Optic and Acousto-Optic devices and designed the optics system. We manufactured the optical mount and the CCD detector for deflected beam and interface card. This acousto-optical spectrometer consisted of a laser, optics, acousto-optic deflector, CCD detector and Interface card. This system use He-Ne laser as a light source and use optics to get parallel beam and to focus the deflected beam. Acousto-optic deflector converts IF signal to ultrasonic wave and deflect the laser beam according to the Bragg deflection. The ultra wide band acousto-optic deflector has 1 GHz bandwidth and a total of 2,048 channel Charge Coupled Device for signal detection. In this study, we discuss the theoretical description on the effect of Acousto-optics, the design of the optics, manufacture of optical mount, CCD detector, interface card and we presented the results of experiment. As a result of measurement, we have 1,000 channels bandwidth from CCD channels.

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THE SLOPE OF ΔM LIGHT CURVE DEPENDING UPON THE ITS LOCATION IN CCD FRAME (CCD 이미지 상의 그 위치와 ΔM 광도곡선의 기울기)

  • 정장해;임인성
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2002
  • BV observations for V523 Cas were performed with 1.8m telescope and 2K CCD camera at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea, on October 27, 1999. ${\Delta}m$ light curves for 11 comparison objects were made. It was found that their light curve slopes are different each other. Factor analysis for items of slope, (b-v) , magnitude, X pixel, and Y pixel results that there is strong correlation between the slope and the location (X,Y). It might be due to problems of CCD cooling system.