The Evryscope
Alternative namesEvryscope
Part ofCerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
Mount Laguna Observatory Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s)United States of America, Chile
CoordinatesCerro Tololo:
30°10′04″S 70°48′19″W / 30.167778°S 70.805278°W / -30.167778; -70.805278 (Evryscope-South)
Mount Laguna:
32°50′33″N 116°25′41″W / 32.84250°N 116.42806°W / 32.84250; -116.42806 (Evryscope-North)
Telescope styleoptical telescope Edit this on Wikidata
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The Evryscopes are a set of rapid-cadence, gigapixel-scale telescopes. Each instrument contains an array of up to 24 camera units, each consisting of a 6.1 cm (2.4 in) telescope (85 mm Rokinon DSLR lens) paired to a thermoelectrically cooled astronomical CCD. The camera units are arranged around a solid fiberglass structure to form a continuous field of view of 9216 sq. deg.[1]

The first instrument (Evryscope-South) was deployed in May 2015 to Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, where it is co-located with the PROMPT Telescopes.[1] The second instrument (Evryscope-North) was deployed in October 2018 to Mount Laguna Observatory.[2]

Evryscope-South is funded by NSF/ATI and NSF/CAREER and was designed and built at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Evryscope-North is funded in collaboration with San Diego State University.

The Argus Array Pathfinder a technological successor with 38 camera will start operations in October 2022 at North Carolina with hopes of paving the way for definite Argus Array with a total of 900 cameras by 2025 which should replace the CCD technology with MOSFET detectors.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Law, Nicholas M; Fors, Octavi; Wulfken, Philip; Ratzloff, Jeffrey; Kavanaugh, Dustin (2014). "The Evryscope: the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope". Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V. Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V. Vol. 9145. pp. 91450Z. arXiv:1407.0026. Bibcode:2014SPIE.9145E..0ZL. doi:10.1117/12.2057031.
  2. ↑ Law, Nicholas (2018-10-27). "Northern Evryscope deployed!". The Evryscope. Retrieved 2019-03-06.
  3. ↑ "All-seeing telescope will snap exploding stars, may spy a hidden world". www.science.org. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
  4. ↑ "The Argus Array". The Argus Array & the Evryscopes. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
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