Evryscope
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Alternative names | Evryscope |
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Part of | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory Mount Laguna Observatory |
Location(s) | United States of America, Chile |
Coordinates | Cerro Tololo: 30°10′04″S 70°48′19″W / 30.167778°S 70.805278°W Mount Laguna: 32°50′33″N 116°25′41″W / 32.84250°N 116.42806°W |
Telescope style | optical telescope |
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The Evryscopes are a set of rapid-cadence,
DSLR lens) paired to a thermoelectrically cooled astronomical CCD. The camera units are arranged around a solid fiberglass structure to form a continuous field of view of 9216 sq. deg.[1]
The first instrument (Evryscope-South) was deployed in May 2015 to Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, where it is co-located with the PROMPT Telescopes.[1] The second instrument (Evryscope-North) was deployed in October 2018 to Mount Laguna Observatory.[2]
Evryscope-South is funded by
NSF/CAREER and was designed and built at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Evryscope-North is funded in collaboration with San Diego State University
.
The Argus Array Pathfinder a technological successor with 38 camera will start operations in October 2022 at North Carolina with hopes of paving the way for definite Argus Array with a total of 900 cameras by 2025 which should replace the CCD technology with MOSFET detectors.[3][4]
See also
References
- ^ .
- ^ Law, Nicholas (2018-10-27). "Northern Evryscope deployed!". The Evryscope. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
- ^ "All-seeing telescope will snap exploding stars, may spy a hidden world". www.science.org. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
- ^ "The Argus Array". The Argus Array & the Evryscopes. Retrieved 2022-08-29.