Correcting the distortion of images taken with the ultraviolet imaging telescope

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Correcting the distortion of images taken with the ultraviolet imaging telescope
المؤلفون: Greason, M. R, Offenberg, Joel D, Cornett, Robert H, Hill, R. S, Stecher, Theodore P
المصدر: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications. 106(705)
بيانات النشر: United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1994.
سنة النشر: 1994
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astronomy
الوصف: The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) cameras include two-stage magnetically focused image intensifiers that introduce small but significant geometrical distortions into the data. These distortions, which create positional offsets as large as 25 arcsec at the field edges, are corrected by the procedure described here to 2-3 arcsec, approximately the resolution of the images. The distortion is measured by comparing and correcting UIT images to digitized Guidestar survey plates of the same fields. Two-dimensional third-order polynomials are used to model the distortion. The models assume that the distortion is an instrumental effect, independent of mission elapsed time and target, and that the effect of distortion is an instrumental effect, independent of mission elapsed time and target, and that the effect of distortion in the center of each field is minimal. The models are used to improve computed astrometric plate solutions and to remove the geometric distortion while transforming the image to a standard north-up, ease-left orientation.
نوع الوثيقة: Report
اللغة: English
تدمد: 0004-6280
DOI: 10.1086/133492
URL الوصول: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950052109
رقم الأكسشن: edsnas.19950052109
قاعدة البيانات: NASA Technical Reports