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Image sample of LA-2description

We took these pictures with our original CCD camera 'LA-1'. LA-1 is made by Toshinobu Miwa, with several members of Tohoku Univ. Astro Lovers. Now we are making LA-2 camera which is based on the cookbook 245 camera. "LA" stands for Lovely Ackky.

History of this project

In 1994 Autumn, Toshinobu Miwa in the Astro Lovers of Tohoku Univ. made a CCD camera named LA-1 for the Festival of Tohoku Univ. Miwa belongs to the Astronomical Institute of Tohoku Univ. and had belong to "Bad Kids" handmade CCD project. Both LA-1 and "Bad Kids" camera are based on the same architecture. Then LA-1 had just cheap fan cooling system.

After the Festival of Tohoku Univ. he attached a cooling system with two pieces of peltier device, so that LA-1 became capacable of taking a long exposure time.

However, those extra function cost high, so the camera became too heavier to bring outside. Then we got together and desided to make a new, simple camera without losing its potentiality. We found a book" The CCD Camera Cookbook: How to Build Your Own CCD Camera". The Cookbook 245 camera has much more ability than LA-1 has. First we held seminars to learn "The CCD Camera cookbook", and designed LA-2. Consequently we desided the camera has TC245 CCD chip on its basis, two pieces of peltier device and water cooling system around it. At the festival of Tohoku Univ. 1995, we displayed LA-2 though the cooling system had not been enough finished.

Image Gallery

We almost finished LA-2 work. You can see excellent photos taken by LA-2!

Another handmade CCD project

"Bad Kids" of Astronomical Institute of Tohoku University, Japan
The Chesser Astro CCD Page

Project members list

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Norihiko Koshiba(Sabonya) E-mail:sabonya@sm.rim.or.jp
Tohoku Univ. Institute of Material http://www.sm.rim.or.jp/~sabonya
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