3 research outputs found
The Australian Space Eye: studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat
The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U
CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors
achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy
measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface
brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator
for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical
observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture
clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the
i and z bands.Comment: 19 pages, 14 figures, submitted for publication as Proc. SPIE 9904,
9904-56 (SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2016
The Australian space eye: Studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat
The Australian Space Eye is a proposed astronomical telescope based on a 6U CubeSat platform. The Space Eye will exploit the low level of systematic errors achievable with a small space based telescope to enable high accuracy measurements of the optical extragalactic background light and low surface brightness emission around nearby galaxies. This project is also a demonstrator for several technologies with general applicability to astronomical observations from nanosatellites. Space Eye is based around a 90 mm aperture clear aperture all refractive telescope for broadband wide field imaging in the i' and z' bands