New Soviet Cameras for Photographic Observations of Artificial Heavenly Bodies (Novye Sovetskie Kamery dlya Fotonablyudenii Iskusstvennykh Nebesnykh Tel)
Abstract
The VAU camera was created in Moscow and is equipped with an 'Astrodar' lens. The effective aperture is 500 mm. The focal length is 700 mm, and the diameter of the main mirror is 1070 mm. It differs basically from the American Baker-Nunn camera by its parallactic mounting which allows recording reference stars in the shape of dots in the immediate vicinity of the satellite's image, simultaneously with the chopped trail images of bright stars. This makes it possible to take into consideration practically the entire deformation of the film. At the present time the Soviet Union and other socialist countries have a network of stations equipped with modern cameras for tracking heavenly bodies, which make it possible to solve serious problems of geophysics and geodesy.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0747135
Entities
People
- A. G. Masevich
- A. M. Lozinskiy