Editing Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (section)

== Hardware ==

LONEOS, in its final configuration, used a 0.6-meter f/1.8 [[Schmidt telescope]], acquired from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] in 1990, and a Lowell-built 16 [[megapixel]] [[Charge-coupled device|CCD]] detector. This combination of instruments provided a field of view of 2.88 by 2.88 degrees (8.3 square degrees). It had a maximum nightly scan area of about 1,000 square degrees (covered four times). The instrument could cover the entire accessible dark sky in about a month. The CCD has detected asteroids as faint as [[visual magnitude]] 19.8 but its typical limiting visual magnitude was 19.3. The instrument is located at Lowell Observatory's dark sky site, [[Anderson Mesa Station]], near Flagstaff, Arizona, US.

Four computers were used. Two were used for frame reductions, one for telescope pointing control and one for camera control. The camera control software had scripting capability and could control all the other computers.