Lower Optical Frame, Camera, CCD, 4 Shooter

This is the lower optical frame for the camera used on the Hale 200-inch telescope at the Cassegrain focus to proof test the split field concept design for the Wide Field/Planetary camera of the Hubble Space Telescope. The NASM collection holds the complete, working camera including split field optics and 2 of the original 4 CCD camera units. (Catalogue#'s 19990211000 through 19990211009), that were used programmatically on the 200-inch for many years and featured in Richard Preston's "First Light" as a galaxy and quasar finder. The 4-shooter was donated by the California Institute of Technology in September 1999. It is now stored at the Garber facility.