...BYO

Bring Your Own (or buy it in Coona: the taxi driver will stop at the bottle shop on the way from the airport if requested).

...

The HST guide star catalogue is likely to be a boon for observers in this regard.

...CCDs

In this discussion we only consider the performance of the dye-coated GEC and Thomson chips, since their DQE is equal or superior to that of similar uncoated chips at all wavelengths.

...LDSS.

The high quantum efficiency of the RCA does, however, make it the clear first choice as a detector for broad-band imaging at 397#397Å.

Chris Tinney
Mon Feb 12 14:53:29 EST 1996