The spherical aberration corrector of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4411, Issue , 2002, Pages 72-78

  O'Donoghue, Darragh ^a   Swat, Arek ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aspheric mirrors; SALT; Spherical aberration; Spherical mirrors; Telescope optical design

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TESTING;

HOBBY EBERLY TELESCOPE; SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE; SPHERICAL ABERRATION CORRECTOR;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0036391053     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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