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Introduction

This chapter describes CCD test package that can be used to check the performance of the CCD detectors used.

In order to ensure the quality of the data delivered by the CCDs on La Silla, ESO run a programme to monitor all CCDs available at the Observatory. In this CCD monitoring programme, for each CCD test for each CCD data is collected on regular intervals. A standard data to check the performance looks like the following one:

The quality of the data collected is checked using a number of commands and procedures available in the MIDAS CCDTEST context. Although the composition of the calibration data of the user is most not identical to ESO's test data set, the same CCD commands can still be executed to check the quality of the user's calibration data.



 
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1999-06-15