A Charge Coupled Device Camera for Use By Students in Undergraduate Astronomy Research

哈维马德学院正在使用电荷耦合装置(CCD)相机和图像处理系统，使学生能够进行各种天文学观测。这台相机被安装在该学院在附近桌山天文台建造的最近完成的1米望远镜上。它被学生们用来搜索外部星系中的超新星，并对星系和球状星团进行测光。该学院的每个物理专业的学生都必须在毕业前完成一项研究项目，成像系统允许他们以一种特别合适的方式完成扩展物体的观测天文学项目。哈维·马德学院将以等额资金匹配这笔赠款。

Harvey Mudd College is using a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) camera and image processing system to enable students to make a variety of observations in astronomy. The camera is attached to a recently- completed 1-meter telescope constructed by the college at nearby Table Mountain Observatory. It is being used by students to search for supernovae in external galaxies and to do photometry on galaxies and on globular clusters. Every physics major at the college must complete a research project before graduation, and the imaging system allows them to do projects in observational astronomy of extended objects in a particularly appropriate way. Harvey Mudd College will match the grant with an equal amount of funds.