Control system of the FOCAS instrument for the SUBARU telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3112, Issue , 1997, Pages 267-274

  Sasaki, Toshiyuki ^a   Yoshida, Michitoshi ^a   Shimizu, Yasuhiro ^a   Kosugi, George ^a   Kashikawa, Nobunari ^a   Yadoumaru, Yasushi ^a   Takata, Tadafumi ^a   Iye, Masanori ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrument; Control software; FOCAS; Spectrograph; Subaru telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER CONTROL; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROGRAPHS; TELESCOPES; USER INTERFACES;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENT; CONTROL SOFTWARE; FOCAS; SPECTROGRAPH; SUBARU TELESCOPE;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0012459582     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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