The large zenith telescope project - A 6-meter mercury-mirror telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3352, Issue , 1998, Pages 226-232

  Hickson, P ^a   Borra, E ^a   Cabanac, R ^a   Chapman, S ^a   De Lapparent, V ^a   Mulrooney, M ^a   Walker, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cosmology; Liquid mirror; Redshifts; Surveys; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTOMETRY; SCANNING; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

COSMOLOGY; DRIFT SCANNING CAMERA; MEDIUM BAND FILTERS; MERCURY MIRROR TELESCOPE; SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; ZENITH TELESCOPE PROJECT;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032403361     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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