Two-channel imaging system for the White light Active Region Monitor (WARM) telescope at Kodaikanal Observatory: design, development, and first images

Hemanth Pruthvi; K. B. Ramesh

doi:10.1117/12.2182889

15 June 2015 Two-channel imaging system for the White light Active Region Monitor (WARM) telescope at Kodaikanal Observatory: design, development, and first images

Hemanth Pruthvi, K. B. Ramesh

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Proceedings Volume 9654, International Conference on Optics and Photonics 2015; 96540I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2182889
Event: International Conference on Optics and Photonics 2015, 2015, Kolkata, India

Abstract

One of the three planned back-end systems for the proposed National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) is the Solar Dynamics Imaging System (SDIS) which is intended to obtain near simultaneous images in multiple wavelengths. As a first step, a prototype system with two channel imaging has been developed and installed at the back-end of the White light Active Region Monitor (WARM) telescope at Kodaikanal Observatory. A two-mirror Coelostat serves as a light feeding system to a refracting objective while an optical breadboard serves as a platform for the back-end instruments. A re-imaging system is used before the prime focus to get two light channels for the observations in two wavelengths. The re-imaging system is designed using ZEMAX and the alignment of the system is done using a laser. Full disk images are obtained using a red filter (674.2nm/10nm) and a G-band filter (430.5nm/0.84nm). Design aspects of the re-imaging system, preliminary observations and image reduction methods are described in this paper.

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Hemanth Pruthvi and K. B. Ramesh "Two-channel imaging system for the White light Active Region Monitor (WARM) telescope at Kodaikanal Observatory: design, development, and first images", Proc. SPIE 9654, International Conference on Optics and Photonics 2015, 96540I (15 June 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2182889

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