Las campanas observatory seeing measurements |
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Authors: | S E Persson D M Carr J H Jacobs |
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Institution: | (1) The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara St, 91101 Pasadena, CA, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Instrumentation built to record seeing data automatically via image motion measurements of bright stars in small telescopes is described. The centroid of the star image is found 256 times s-1 in one dimension and is analyzed on-line. The device works over a range of FWHM values as would be seen through a large telescope between <0.1 and 3.0 arcsec. The first results for two identical instruments set up at two locations near the duPont Telescope at Las Campanas Observatory are reported. For a total of 61 nights of data (450 h at each site), the median seeing is 0.6 arcsec, with quartiles at 0.4 and 0.8 arcsec. These are FWHM values referred to 5000 Å at the zenith. So far, the two sites are indistinguishable on average. |
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