| Name: | Shubham Ghatul |
| Affiliation: | Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru |
| Conference ID : | ASI2024_778 |
| Title : | MaceBerryCam: Development of a Raspberry Pi based star camera for MACE telescope at Hanle |
| Authors : | Shubham Ghatul A1, Bharat Chandra A2, Shubhangi Jain A3, Mahesh Babu A4, Binukumar Gopalakrishnan A5, Jayant Murthy A6, Margarita Safonova A7, Rekhesh Mohan A8, Debangana Sarkar B1, Sagar Godambe B2, Nilesh Chouhan B3. |
| Authors Affiliation: | 1. Authors A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8: Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengluru (560034)
2. Authors B1, B2, B3: Bhabha Atomic Reseach Centre, Mumbai (400085) |
| Mode of Presentation: | Poster |
| Abstract Category : | Facilities, Technologies and Data science |
| Abstract : |
We present here the development of an all weather star camera for the Major Atmospheric Cerenkov Experiment (MACE) Telescope situated at IAO, Hanle. This instrument, named after the telescope MACE and the processor Raspberry Pi, called MaceBerryCam is a low cost star camera that uses a Raspberry Pi 12-megapixel HQ camera as the sensor and a 16mm telephoto lens based optical system for capturing a 22 X 16 degrees field of view of the sky. This captured images is processed using the Astrometry.NET package installed on-board for solving the star field for the Right Ascention (RA) and Declination (Dec) of the captured field. The standard exposure time is kept to be 200ms and the entire processing time including calculating the RA and Dec is around 10 seconds. We also performed on-sky tests at the telescope site in Hanle and obtained results. The results are also presented in this work. |
