Development of a zodiacal light observation system: WIZARD

Masateru Ishiguro; Munetaka Ueno; Fumihiko Usui; Ryosuke Nakamura; Tadashi Mukai; Suk Minn Kwon; Akihiko Miyashita; Kazuhiro Sekiguchi; Masao Nakagiri

doi:10.1117/12.457347

30 January 2003 Development of zodiacal light observation system: WIZARD

Masateru Ishiguro, Munetaka Ueno, Fumihiko Usui, Ryosuke Nakamura, Tadashi Mukai, Suk Minn Kwon, Akihiko Miyashita, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, Masao Nakagiri

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Proceedings Volume 4842, Specialized Optical Developments in Astronomy; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457347
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

We describe a new system (WIZARD: Wide-field Imager of Zodiacal light with ARray Detector) for the zodiacal light observation developed by a Korean and Japanese zodiacal light observation group. Since the zodiacal light is faint and wide-spread all over the sky, it consists of a very sensitive CCD camera of a quantum efficiency of 90% at 460(nm) and a wide angle lens with the field-of-view of 49x98 (degree). WIZARD is designed to measure the absolute brightness of diffuse sky in visible wavelengths. The zodiacal component will be separated from the integrated starlight, the airglow continuum and the scattered light in the atmosphere in the data reduction procedure. We got a first image by WIZARD in 2001 at Mauna Kea (4200m, Hawaii) under the collaboration with SUBARU Telescope. We observed the zodiacal light and the gegenschein in 2002 again, and got the excellent images. In this paper, we describe the design of WIZARD and report the performance examined by the laboratory measurements and the observations at Mauna Kea in 2002.

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Masateru Ishiguro, Munetaka Ueno, Fumihiko Usui, Ryosuke Nakamura, Tadashi Mukai, Suk Minn Kwon, Akihiko Miyashita, Kazuhiro Sekiguchi, and Masao Nakagiri "Development of zodiacal light observation system: WIZARD", Proc. SPIE 4842, Specialized Optical Developments in Astronomy, (30 January 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457347

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