WEBCCD
Generation 2

 

IMAGING SYSTEM PRESETS
Telescope	Detector
0.36 Meter SCT 0.36 Meter SCT @ f/6.3 0.4 Meter SCT AstroTech AT10RC LCO Henrietta Swope (40inch) OGS RC20 (0.5 Meter) OGS RC24 (0.6 Meter) Dominey Observatory CDK27 (0.70 Meter) SFA 18 inch Takahashi FCT-200 Takahashi TOA-130 William Optics FLT-110 TOROS (Planewave CDK24)	SBIG ST-i SBIG ST-402 SBIG ST-8XME SBIG ST-10XME SBIG STF-8300 SBIG STX-16803 SBIG STL-11000 SBIG STC-428-P SITe#3 Detector Photometrics Ltd Star-1 CCD QHY-183M (CMOS) TOROS STF-8300

 

OBJECT ID
OBJECT RA   (hours)
OBJECT DEC   (degrees)
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TELESCOPE
CCD WIDTH   (pixels)
CCD HEIGHT  (pixels)
TELESCOPE FOCAL LENGTH
CCD PIXEL SIZE X (microns)
CCD PIXEL SIZE Y (microns)
CCD BINNING	1 x 1     2 x 2     3 x 3     9 x 9
PLATE ROTATION (degrees)
LEFT HANDED	FALSE     TRUE
DSS SURVEY	POSS2/UKSTU Red POSS2/UKSTU Blue POSS2/UKSTU IR POSS1 Red POSS1 Blue Quick-V HST Phase 2 (GSC2) HST Phase 2 (GSC1)
RETURN FITS IMAGE
DISPLAY FITS IMAGE IN JS9
DISPLAY JPEG IMAGE

 

Comparison of WebCCD to an actual image of the same field.
Example of wide-field placement of WebCCD.

 

This is the next generation of WebCCD. It has been completely reprogrammed from the ground up using the Swift programming language. WebCCD was created to generate detailed finder charts using actual images of the sky that match a specific imaging system. The images of the sky are generated from the STScI Digitized Sky Survey (DSS). The maximum field size allowed by the DSS is 60x60 arc-minutes. As a result, WebCCD is also limited. If the imaging system parameters exceed this limitation, WebCCD will still build the resulting image to the specified detector size with the DSS composite of 1 sq degree centered and properly rotated.

 

The original WebCCD can be found here.

 

 

Created by Don Carona, Physics Teaching Observatory, Texas A&M University