A Digital High-Definition Imaging System for Spectral Studies of Extended Planetary Atmospheres. I. Initial Results in White Light Showing Features on the Hemisphere of Mercury Unimaged by Mariner 10

@article{Baumgardner2000ADH,
  title={A Digital High-Definition Imaging System for Spectral Studies of Extended Planetary Atmospheres. I. Initial Results in White Light Showing Features on the Hemisphere of Mercury Unimaged by Mariner 10},
  author={Jeffrey Baumgardner and Michael Mendillo and Jody K. Wilson},
  journal={The Astronomical Journal},
  year={2000},
  volume={119},
  pages={2458 - 2464}
}
We present an instrumentation plan for spectral imaging of Mercury's extended atmosphere. The approach depends upon simultaneous short-exposure images in white light and sodium, with the former used to select the frames for postintegration of the sodium images. The effects of atmospheric seeing are thus minimized by the combination of high-speed exposures and subsequent selective integration. The instrumentation to be used is a long-slit imaging echelle spectrometer equipped with an image… 
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