Search for Vulcanoid Asteriods - Page 16

Landon's 1 Aug 2008 Eclipse platform

  • Will use an improved 3 camera system
    • A Canon EOS-1D Mark III
      • CMOS sensor with a much lower noise with cutoff filter below 550 nm
    • Red sensitive Canon EOS-20Da
      • With cutoff filter below 630 nm
    • Near-IR modified Canon EOS-5D
      • Modified to image wavelengths 1150 nm to 645 nm

  • Target area - East of the Sun
    • 4.3 degrees by 6.3 degrees image centered lengthwise along the Ecliptic
    • Far left edge will be 10.5 degrees east of the Sun
    • Contains ~30 reference stars from mag +5.8 to +9.9
    • Centered on 08h 18m RA +19 degrees 39.5 minutes Dec (2000 Epoch)
By Landon Curt Noll: for the SEC 2007 conference.