Title: Electronic imaging in astronomy
First published: 1997
Description: This book describes the remarkable developments that have taken place in astronomical detectors and instrumentation in recent years, from the invention of the charge-coupled device, or CCD, in 1970, through to the current era of Very Large Telescopes - the Keck telescopes in Hawaii, the ESO VLT, and GEMINI telescopes - and electronic imaging with space-borne instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Subjects: Instruments, Astronomical instruments, Imaging systems in astronomy, Imaging systems, Physics, Astronomy, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Astronomy, Optics and Lasers Electromagnetism, Popular Science in Astronomy, Space Exploration and Astronautics, Instrumentation Electronics and Microelectronics, Image and Speech Processing Signal