Professor Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin–Madison) with the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. Photo by Leslie Taylor.
Engineer Thomas Meures (left) and PhD student Leslie Taylor (right), both from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, preparing the pSCT camera for installation onto the telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. The rear of the camera, including electronics for triggering on and recording the 1600 camera pixels at a rate of one billion frames per second, is visible. Photo by Justin Vandenbroucke.
Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope during its first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image: Thomas Meures
Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope during its first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image: Thomas Meures
Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope during its first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image: Thomas Meures
Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope during its first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image: Thomas Meures
