ARIES Baker-Nunn Schmidt telescope project is converting a Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera for Astronomical research. Original Baker-Nunn camera produces an extremely large (5X30 degree) curved focal plane at the prime focus for photographic imaging. We present here the re-designing of the camera produces a wide (4 X 4 degree) flat field of view for CCD imaging observations, which have many scientific potentials in Astronomy. Imaging performance of the CCD camera is also estimated.
@article{arxiv.0905.0361,
title = {Development of ARIES Baker-Nunn camera to a wide-field Imaging Telescope with CCD},
author = {Soumen Mondal and K. G. Gupta and Sneh Lata and Biman J. Medhi and Tarun Bangia and T. S. Kumar and Shobhit Yadav and S. K. Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.0361},
year = {2009}
}
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7 pages, 3 figure, Proceedings of International Conference on Trends in Optics and Photonics(IConTOP), 2009, edited by A. Ghosh and D. Choudhury, held at Kolkata, India during 1-4 March 2009, pp380-386,ISBN 978-81-908188-0-3