Meet
our Corporate Sponsors
The
Puckett Observatory Supernova Search (POSS) effort has brought together a
diverse group of dedicated amateur astronomers with a common goal of
discovering supernovae.
The POSS team consists of talented observers, electrical engineers, craftsman
and software programmers who have devoted many years to amateur astronomy. As
ambitious as our goals have been, we recognize the need to establish
partnerships with the technology leaders in our field. By combining the
equipment and consulting from our technology partners with our own expertise in
optics, observatory construction and observation, we can achieve much more as a
team that we might have separately. With our newly installed systems, we are
hopeful we can make an even greater contribution to astronomy in the future.
With special appreciation for all their help to our effort, we give recognition
to our corporate sponsors below.
Apogee
Instruments, Inc. produces high speed low noise cameras for the Biomedical and
Astronomy market. We use their
which are unmatched in price and performance. That's why we purchased their
very first production SITe system years ago. The
combination of a back illuminated thinned chip and low system noise produces
extremely clean high signal to noise images. This is extremely important to our
Supernova search where discriminating faint stars from background is the key.
Apogee has been the leading sponsor since 1996.
Software
Bisque, has been a long time
friend for a decade. Hardware contributions, unlimited use of
the SKY, CCDSoft, Orchestrate and T-point since 1994.
DC-3
Dreams, SP.,
I have worked with Bob Denny for years and was one of the first alpha testers
for his products. Bob has helped the team for many years.