The Hobby-Eberly telescope: Commissioning experience and observing plans

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3349, Issue , 1998, Pages 50-54

  Glaspey, John W ^a   Adams, Mark T ^a   Booth, John A ^b   Cornell, Mark E ^b   Fowler, James R ^a   Krabbendam, Victor L ^b   Ramsey, Lawrence W ^c   Ray, Frank B ^b   Ricklefs, Randall L ^b   Spiesman, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hobby Eberly telescope; Large telescopes; Segmented mirrors

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES;

DEPENDENT FUNCTIONS; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE; LARGE TELESCOPES; MC DONALD (CO); PRIMARY MIRROR (PM); SEGMENTED MIRRORS;

RADIO TELESCOPES;

EID: 0002485158     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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