Primary mirror figure maintenance of the Hobby-Eberly telescope using the segment alignment maintenance system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 702-713

  Rakoczy, John ^a   Hall, Drew ^a   Howard, Ricky ^a   Ly, William ^a   Weir, John ^a   Montgomery, Edward ^a   Adams, Mark ^b   Booth, John ^b   Fowler, James ^b   Ames, Greg ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Control system; Edge sensors; Hobby Eberly Telescope; Segmented mirror

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; MIRRORS; SENSORS;

HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0013170001     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.456734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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