Oscilloscope Camera, Project Celescope
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Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Dumont
- Summary
- This camera, with a Polaroid back, was used to provide a quick photographic record of the telemetered signal from Celescope. Celescope was a project in the 1960s to survey the ultraviolet sky at wavelengths invisible from the ground. It has a specially designed shroud to fit over the face of an oscilloscope to facilitate use. The Uvicon tubes on Celescope were TV tubes that imaged small portions of the sky through a set of four telescopes. The camera record was therefore a means of assessing the brightnesses of the stars and other objects the telescopes imaged.
- Transferred to NASM from Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Inventory Number
- A19740048000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Aluminum, steel, glass, paint, synthetic fabric, plastic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9in. x 1ft 1 1/2in. x 6in. (22.9 x 34.29 x 15.2cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19740048000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9e64453a1-980f-4ef4-81d4-2733f006b8f0
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