Kepler photometer
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Kepler photometer
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The Kepler photometer is the main instrument on NASA's Kepler space telescope. It is a Schmidt telescope with an array of 42 2200x1024 CCDs in the focal plane; each CCD is flat, but they are mounted on a curved structure to account for the curved focal plane. The CCDs are not abutting, so the focal plane is not entirely covered, but since the mission's goal is to observe a sample of stars, this doesn't matter.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_photometer
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2021-06-29T22:09:32Z
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