Using the Lynxx CCD Camera on a Small Telescope for Variable Star Observing
Volume 20 number 2 (1991)
- Gary P. Emerson
- E. E. Barnard Observatory, Golden, CO 80403
- Stephen J. Little
- Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy., University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
Abstract
The new small CCD cameras combined with a short focal length lens (a three-inch lens at f/4.0) of high quality produce a combination that we have found ideal for observing variable stars to magnitude 15 with exposures as short as 5 minutes. The potential and future implications for AAVSO observations with this type of system is great. A discussion of this system and some representative observations are presented, and some of the implications for future AAVSO data acquisition are discussed.