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The OCA Schmidt telescope is a classical Schmidt telescope, 90cm aperture, 1.50 meter mirror and 3.14 meters focal length. It was put into operation in 1978, at a time when astronomical CCDs were in their infancy, and has been designed as a photographic telescope. It has been used for a variety of projects, involving photographic plates, and later photographic films. Intended mostly as a technological development, a small CCD camera was installed inside one of our plate holders has been done in 1992. Thereafter, the development of larger CCD cameras for our telescope has been motivated by the need to survey large area of sky in order to discover Near Earth Asteroids. Since 1995, this effort is a collaborative effort between our team and DLR Berlin.
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Maury, A., Ragey, J.P., Viot, H., Michaelis, H., Behnke, T. (1998). Converting a Schmidt Telescope to CCDs: The OCA/DLR Asteroid Survey. In: Beletic, J.W., Amico, P. (eds) Optical Detectors for Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 228. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5262-4_37
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