This is a short document regarding the meeting tih Andreas Echtermeyer, that took place between 11.00-12.00 on the 20th of October 2017
As Dr. Echtermeyer pointed out, the current lab equipments is not setup to generate the desired temperature gradients that we want to test for, but as he also pointed out, there is no test scenario where you don’t have to customize your setup for the current experiment. Similar setups have been built for systems like the James Webb telescope, and he believed it to be very feasible
Our biggest concern as of now is that we need to be able to say something about what kind of distortions we can accept in the camera, and for what part of the lens and what not that this regards.
We also need to have an idea about what kind of material we want to use, and how it should be produced.
Sivert:
Without much knowledge about the sensitivities of the camera I would suggest that we perhaps could acquire more (than one) camera of the same type as the one we want to send to space for testing purposes (Far from the first person to suggest this …), and have some duplicates that we are not too anxious about. Furthermore we could try to see if the camera responds in an appropriate manner under distress using different sources for relevant (correct nm) monochromatic light. This should be done both during different testing scenarios as well as in an effort to better familiarise with the limitations of the camera with regard to both saturation and minimal amount of photons. If at all possible of course.