title: Slow-scan television system.
abstract: An unconventional, highly sensitive camera system is described, suitable for silicon or amplified silicon (SIT or EBS) vidicons. Features are a variable field size and sweep rate and a low-noise video amplifier. Used on a 91-cm telescope, it can detect 15th magnitude stars with the silicon vidicon. With an SIT tube, the limit is 17 on the 91-cm and 20.5 on the 4-m telescope. The system is briefly compared with an I-SIT camera.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hunten
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Stump