The Dobsonian Sprites Experiment
Telescopic Imaging of Sprites
Stanford Graduate Student Elizabeth
Gerken and the DSE telescope.
The rotatable and tiltable mounting base of the telescope provides
easy elevation and azimuth control, placed on top of a wooden base to clear
the railings of the terrace. The wide-field-of-view camera is mounted on
top of the telescope. Both the wide and narrow fields-of-view are recorded
with image intensified CCD video cameraó, with simultaneous recording
of a broadband VLF crossed-loop antenna signal and GPS IRIG-B on
the audio channels. Additionally a red-filtered Hamamatsu photomultiplier
tube is mounted on top of the telescope and its signal is also recorded
on an audio channel. The location is the terrace of the Langmuir
Laboratory annex, located on the 11,000 ft high South Baldy peak, providing
clear views of thunderstorms in Kansas, Colorado, Texas, and the north-west
coast of Mexico.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND RESULTS
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