Present status of the GTC installations design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3352, Issue , 1998, Pages 504-512

  Pescador, Germán R ^a   Serrano, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Enclosure; Installations; Natural ventilation; Thermal control

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ENCLOSURES; INSTALLATION; MAINTENANCE; PROTECTION; SPACE TELESCOPES; THERMAL VARIABLES CONTROL; VENTILATION; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

TELESCOPE CHAMBER; TELESCOPE PIER; WIND-INDUCED TELESCOPE;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0032403384     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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