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In the last few years, as the CCD cameras have been routinely used in most of the Observatories, there has been a growing concern among the scientific community about the major weakness of this very good detector: the format of the available chips is too small for many applications.
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D’Odorico, S., Prieur, JL. (1989). The CCD Mosaic Project by ESO and INSU/Toulouse Observatory. In: McNally, D. (eds) Highlights of Astronomy. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0977-9_112
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