• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.66.1-66.1
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• 2011

천체망원경을 이용한 측광관측은 주로 CCD를 이용하여 이루어지고 있으며, CCD를 이용한 측광관측은 CCD를 구성하는 픽셀마다 양자효율이 일정하지 않기 때문에 Flat 관측을 이용하여 보정을 하고 있다. 한편, Flat 관측은 주로 빈 하늘을 찍는 Sky Flat 방법을 이용하고 있으나, Sky Flat을 관측하는 방법은 계절에 따라 시작 시간이 다르고, 제한적인 관측 시간 내에 관측자의 판단으로 이루어지고 있는 실정이다. 특히 제한적인 관측시간은 관측자의 상당한 신중함을 요구하고 있어 노출시간 조절 및 시작 시간을 지나게 되면 Sky Flat 영상을 얻지 못하는 경우도 있다. 이러한 제약 조건에서 효율적인 Flat관측을 하기위해 AutoFlat 프로그램을 개발하였다. AutoFlat 프로그램은 5초 노출로 빈 하늘을 찍으며 관측된 이미지에서 정해진 하늘의 밝기가 되면 자동으로 노출 시간을 계산하고, 각각의 필터별로 관측을 하는 동시에 적절한 이름을 주어 자동으로 저장하게 되어 있다. 이번 연구에서 개발한 AutoFlat 프로그램은 관측자가 Flat 관측을 진행하지 않아도 안정적이면서 효율적인 Flat 관측을 수행하여 앞으로 CCD를 이용한 측광 관측에서 유용하게 사용될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.367-378
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• 2007

We present a software which we developed for the multi-purpose CCD camera. This software can be used on the all 3 types of CCD - KAF-0401E ($768{\times}512$), KAF-1602E ($1536{\times}1024$), KAF-3200E ($2184{\times}1472$) made in KODAK Co.. For the efficient CCD camera control, the software is operated with two independent processes of the CCD control program and the temperature/shutter operation program. This software is designed to fully automatic operation as well as manually operation under LINUX system, and is controled by LINUX user signal procedure. We plan to use this software for all sky survey system and also night sky monitoring and sky observation. As our results, the read-out time of each CCD are about 15sec, 64sec, 134sec for KAF-0401E, KAF-1602E, KAF-3200E., because these time are limited by the data transmission speed of parallel port. For larger format CCD, the data transmission is required more high speed. we are considering this control software to one using USB port for high speed data transmission.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.43-47
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• 2001

We developed a CCD camera that can observe wide fields on the sky. We tested the field of views using various lenses. For cooling the CCD chip, we used a thermoelectric cooling device and tested the cooling efficiency. This camera will continuously observe a part of the sky. The data from the camera will be used to decide the current weather condition by the real-time star counting program (SCount) which will be developed later.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.119-132
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• 1994

The BVR CCD photometry was performed for the globular cluster M13 down to $V=19^m$ over the region from the center to the west 13 arcmin and the CMD of M13 is investigated. The major photometric error in the crowded field which is due to the variation in the sky background was corrected by the median filtering method and the direct sky method. Some characteristics of the CMD of M13 obtained in the present study are as follows: Firstly, the distribution of stars on the CMD is well consistent with the mean lines of Sandage(1970) along the red giant branch(RGB), horizontal branch(HB) and asymtotic giant branch(AGB). Secondly, some gaps exists along the RGB and blue horizontal branch(BHB). Thirdly, the UV-bright stars are more concentrated at the inner region of the cluster.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.263-266
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• 2002

Gravity waves have been searched for with a new all-sky camera system over Korean Peninsular. The all-sky camera consists of a 37mm/F4.5 Mamiya fisheye lens with a 180 dog field of view, interference filters and a 1024 by 1024 CCD camera. The all-sky camera has been tested near Daejeon city, and moved to Mt. Bohyun where the largest astronomical telescope is operated in Korea. A clear wave pattern was successfully detected in OH filter images over Mt. Bohyun on July 18, 2001, indicating that small scale coherent gravity waves perturbed OH airglow near the mesopause. Other wave features are since then observed with Na 589.8nm and OI 630.0nm filters. Since a Japanese all-sky camera network has already detected traveling ionospheric disturbances (TID) over the northeast-southwest range of Japanese islands, we hope our all-sky camera extends the coverage of the TID's observations to the west direction. We plan to operate our all-sky camera all year around to study seasonal variation of wave activities over the mid-latitude upper atmosphere.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.208-231
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• 1994

We have undertaken CCD observations of fie이 standard stars with H$\beta$ photometric system to investigate the reliability of H$\beta$ CCD photometry. Flat fielding with dome flat and sky flat for H$\beta$w and H$\beta$n filter was compared with that of B filter in UBV system and, from these, we have not found any difference. It was confirmed that there is a good linear relationship between our H$\beta$ values observed with 2.3m reflector and standard values. However, H$\beta$ values observed with 60cm reflector at Sobaeksan Astronomy Observatory showed very poor relationship. To investigate the accuracy of H$\beta$ CCD photometry for fainter objects, open cluster NGC2437 was observed and reduced with DoPHOT, and the results were compared with those for photoelectric photometry of Stetson(1981).

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.179-184
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• 2004

We have developed a wide-field imaging camera system, called WICZO, to monitor light of the night sky over extended period. Such monitoring is necessary for studying the morphology of interplanetary dust cloud and also the time and spatial variations of airglow emission. The system consists of an electric cooler a CCD camera with $60\%$ quantum efficiency at 500nm, and a fish-eye lens with $180^{\circ}$ field of view. Wide field imaging is highly desired in light of the night sky observations in general, because the zodiacal light and the airglow emission extend over the entire sky. This paper illustrates the design of WICZO, reports the result of its laboratory performance test, and presents the first night sky image, which was taken, under collaboration with Byulmaro Observatory, on top of Mt. Bongrae at Yongweol in January, 2004.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.32-40
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• 2013

The Boltwood Cloud Sensor is meteorological sensor that is used to estimate an amount of clouds in the sky. This sensor will be installed for OWL(Optical Wide-field patroL) telescope and observatory system of Korea Astronomy and Space Science. Before applying this sensor to an observatory system, we performed test observations at Chungbuk University Observatory at Jincheon, Chungbuk. During the test run, a significant correlation between air temperature difference and the number of visible stars recorded in the CCD frames has not been found. This preliminary result can be attributed to test environment of the observation and our lack of knowledge on calculation algorithm as well as the hardware system of the Boltwood Cloud Sensor.In this paper, we present the procedure and the result of the performance test employing the cloud sensor.

• Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.203-206
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• 2005

The large field multi-color CCD sky survey program based on the 60/90 Schmidt telescope of NAOC has been processed in cooperation among many observatories and universities of Asian countries. The observation and scientific results are reviewed.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.61-67
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• 1999

We present a new UBVI CCD photometry of the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 2420. Our photometry covers a field of $7'9\times7.'7$ of the sky centered on the cluster. We determined the reddening and distance to the cluster by the main sequence fitting as $E(B - V) = 0.05\pm0.02$ and $(m-M)_o = 11.9\pm0.1$, along with the age of $\~2$ Gyr by fitting the Padova isochrones to the observed color-magnitude diagrams of the cluster. The fraction of binaries is found to be $44\pm5\%$ and they are likely to locate in the central region of the cluster. The spatial distributions of the binaries and the variation of the cluster luminosity functions along the radius suggest mass segregations due to the dynamical evolution of the cluster.