An atmospheric dispersion corrector for the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4411, Issue , 2002, Pages 79-84

  O'Donoghue, Darragh ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ADC; Atmospheric dispersion corrector; Optical design; SALT

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL DESIGN; PRISMS;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION CORRECTOR; SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036388438     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454874     Document Type: Conference Paper

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