ROTSE-I
instruments
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Astrophysicists Jim Wren and Bob Kehoe checking the ROTSE-I four-fold camera array.
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ROTSE-I is an array of four electronic cameras mounted on a common equatorial platform.
 | Optics: |
Canon 200 mm focal length, f/1.8, telephoto lenses in FD mounts.
| Imaging system: |
Apogee Instruments AP-10 CCD cameras with Thomson 2048 x 2048 14 micron imagers.
Estimated readout noise: 25 e- at 1.0 Megapixels/second.
| Camera mount: |
Epoch Instruments rapid slewing mount.
| Data acquisition system: |
Network of five PCs consisting of one host CPU and four camera control processors operating under LINUX.
| Current site: |
Los Alamos, New Mexico
