Atmospheric Scintillation Measurements.
Atmospheric Scintillation Measurements.
Most astronomical observations, even with digital imaging
devices, use long integration times to improve the signal
to noise ratio. However atmospheric disturbances take place
at a much shorter time scale which smears out the image.
This project will be about adapting relatively fast CCD
imaging devices to measure the characteristics of such
atmospheric disturbance, both in the upper atmosphere,
and along a horizontal terrestrial path, with a view
to the specification of adaptive optics that would allow
the range and accuracy of terrestrial and astronomical
telescopes to be improved. This project will run in parallel
with a related project in Applied Physics. The telescopes
have been purchased with the support of the Teaching and
Learning Committee.