System Description
| Telescope | Meade LX200 12" |
| Sub aperture layout | Two pairs diagonal |
| Sub aperture d | 7.4 cm |
| Sub aperture separation D | 20.5 cm |
| Detector | WATEC WAT-100N |
| Pixel scale | 0."667 (Horizontal) x 0."627 (Vertical)/pixel |
| Exposure time | 0.5, 0.2, 0.1ms adjusted to observing condition |
| CCD gain | 50 dB fixed |
| Wavelength | 0.5 um |
| Wavelength range | 0.3-1.1 um |
| Realtime data aquisition | Linux based PC |
| Sampling rate | 30 frames / second |
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Seeing values are calculated from image motions by the following procedures. An image motion is defined to be a variance of image centroids. The centroids are obtained in every captured frame and accumulated up to 60 data points to calculate the variance σ2. The relation between the Fried's seeing parameter r0 and the variance of the differential longitudinal image motion σ2 is given by σ2l = 2λ2r0-5/3[ 0.179 D-1/3 - 0.0968 d-1/3] Also the relation between r0 and the variance of the differential transverse image motion σ2t is given by σ2t = 2λ2r0-5/3[ 0.179 D-1/3 - 0.145 d-1/3] Here, λ is wavelength, D is a diameter of sub apertures and d is a distance between sub apertures. In case of our system, 0.5um for λ, 7.4cm for D and 20.5cm for d are adopted. FWHM θ is estimated numerically with λ and r0, θ = 0.98 x λ/r0, Finally, the zenith distance correction is applied, θ(0) = θ(z) x cos(z)3/5, where z is a zenith distance, θ(z) is the observed seeing and θ(0) is the seeing at zenith. |