The Evryscopes are a set of rapid-cadence,

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-scale

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. Each instrument contains an array of up to 24 camera units, each consisting of a telescope (85 mm

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lens) paired to a thermoelectrically cooled astronomical

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. The camera units are arranged around a solid fiberglass structure to form a continuous field of view of 9216 sq. deg. The first instrument (Evryscope-South) was deployed in May 2015 to

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, where it is co-located with the

PROMPT Telescopes PROMPT, an acronym for Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes, is being built by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile Chile, officially the ...

. The second instrument (Evryscope-North) was deployed in October 2018 to

Mount Laguna Observatory Mount Laguna Observatory (MLO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by San Diego State University (SDSU). The telescope was operated in partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) until 2000. MLO is located ...

. Evryscope-South is funded by NSF/ATI and NSF/CAREER and was designed and built at the

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. Evryscope-North is funded in collaboration with

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. The Argus Array Pathfinder a technological successor with 38 camera will start operations in October 2022 at North Carolina with hopes of paving the way for definite Argus Array with a total of 900 cameras by 2025 which should replace the CCD technology with

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detectors.

References

External links

The Evryscope website
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