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