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器件（CCD）相机和图像处理系统，使学生能够进行各种天文观测。该摄像机安装在学院最近在附近桌山天文台建造的1米望远镜上。学生们用它来寻找外部星系中的超新星，对星系和球状星团进行光度测定。该学院的每个物理专业学生都必须在毕业前完成一个研究项目，而成像系统使他们能够以一种特别合适的方式进行扩展物体的观测天文学项目。哈维马德学院将提供等额的资金。

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.