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CTAO Prototype Telescope

Less than a week after its inauguration on January 17, 2019, the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder telescope (pSCT), a telescope design proposed for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), successfully detected its first Cherenkov light on January 23 at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona.

Other multimedia resources available:
Video by UW-Madison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRztsySYeUI
Video by WIPAC: https://vimeo.com/312137754
Videos of events recorded during first light night: https://vimeo.com/album/5758583

Professer Vandebroucke (UW-Madison) with the prototype of Schwarzchild-Couder telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory at Mt. Hopkins in Arizona. Photo by Leslie Taylor

Engineer Thomas Meures (left) and PhD student Leslie Taylor (right), both from the University of Wisconsin Madison, preparing the pSCT camera for installation on the the telescope at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory. The rear of the camera, including electronics for triggering on and recording the 1600 camera pixel at the rate of one billion frames per second, is visible. Photo by Justin Vandenbroucke

Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzchild Couder Telescope during it's first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image by Thomas Meures

Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzchild Couder Telescope during it's first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image by Thomas Meures

Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzchild Couder Telescope during it's first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image by Thomas Meures

Example image of an atmospheric particle shower recorded in Cherenkov radiation by the prototype Schwarzchild Couder Telescope during it's first light run. This is a snapshot of a video recording that is 128 ns long. Image by Thomas Meures

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