TY - JOUR
AU - Farah, Alejandro
AB - It is proposed the development and implementation of a High Speed Resolution Camera instrument. The basic principleof this technique is to take several pictures of short exposure using different filters of an astronomical object of interest .These images are subsequently processed using specialized software to remove aberrations from atmosphere and fromthe instrument itself such as blur and scintillation among others.In this paper are described electronic and control systems implemented for BERKUT instrument based on FPGA (FieldProgrammable Gate Array) generated with VHDL description. An UART communication, using serial protocol, is usedwith a friendly User Interface providing an easy way for the astronomer to choose between different lenses and differentfilters for capturing the images. All the movements are produced by stepper motors that are driven by a circuit thatpowers all the electronics. The camera and the lenses are placed into a linear positioner with the help of a stepper motorwhich give us repeatable movements for positioning these optical components.Besides it is planned to integrate in the same system a pipeline for image data reduction to have one sturdy system thatcould fulfill any astronomer needs in the usage of this technique. With this instrument we pretend to confirm theHipparcos catalogue of binary stars besides finding exoplanets. This technique requires more simple optical equipmentand it is less sensitive to environmental noise, making it cheaper and provides good quality and great resolution imagesfor scientific purposes. This equipment will be installed on different 1-m class telescopes in Mexico1 and probably othercountries which makes it a wide application instrument.
TI - Optomecatronic design and integration of a high resolution equipment Berkut to the 1-meter class telescopes
JF - Proceedings of SPIE
DO - 10.1117/12.2056742
DA - 2014-07-08
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/spie/optomecatronic-design-and-integration-of-a-high-resolution-equipment-PaeH0C7nhc
SP - 91473R
EP - 91473R-8
VL - 9147
IS - 
DP - DeepDyve
ER -