Kepler's focal plane sensorsKepler image with two points of interest outlined. Celestial north is towards the lower left corner.
The Kepler photometer is the main instrument on NASA's Kepler space telescope.
It is a Schmidt telescope (95 cm clear aperture, 140 cm mirror) 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.
The Keplerphotometer is the main instrument on NASA's Kepler space telescope. It is a Schmidt telescope (95 cm clear aperture, 140 cm mirror) with an...
billions of stars in the Milky Way have such planets, Kepler's sole scientific instrument is a photometer that continually monitored the brightness of approximately...
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bumps on its surface would be about 10 cm high. The Keplerphotometer, mounted on NASA's Kepler space telescope (2009–2018), is the largest Schmidt camera...
Kepler'sphotometer's field of view. List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope: 1–500 List of exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space...
to 2 × 1038 ergs. The Kepler spacecraft is a space observatory designed to find planets by the method of transits. A photometer continually monitors the...
the first spacecraft to use an Earth-trailing orbit, later used by the Kepler planet-finder. The planned mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch...
astronomical data on stars, and new technologies such as the photoelectric photometer allowed astronomers to accurately measure the color and luminosity of...
the ICC since its establishment in 2002. March 7 – NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer that will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy...
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