Pan-STARRS

20.707333333333 - 156.25576388889Koordinaten: 20 ° 42 ' 26 " N, 156 ° 15' 21 " W

Pan - STARRS ( Panoramic Survey Telescope And Rapid Response System) is a system for the continuous observation of the night sky. With its help is sought since 2010 for new asteroids, comets, and variable stars. It is hoped that many new discoveries.

It consists of four 1.8 - m telescopes on Mauna Kea and Haleakala in Hawaii, which are simultaneously observed for the reduction of image and measurement errors, the same area of ​​sky. The First light of the prototype telescope PS1 on Haleakala was in June 2006. The second telescope, PS2, is to be taken in 2013. A Pan - STARRS telescope has 3 ° a very large field of view is achieved by three approximately 50 cm in diameter corrector lenses of the two mirrors in the Cassegrain arrangement; the resulting large-scale image is acquired with a 1.4 - billion -pixel CCD sensor (60 × 64 sensors with 600 × 600 pixels). Each sensor can move while recording the image vertically and horizontally to compensate for image motion caused by atmospheric turbulence.

In June 2011, a comet was with Pan - STARRS 1 discovered and named C/2011 L4 ( PanStarrs ).

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