Hobby-Eberly telescope segment alignment maintenance system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 693-701

  Adams, Mark T ^a,b   Palunas, Povilas ^b   Booth, John A ^b   Fowler, James R ^a   Wolf, Marsha ^b   Ames, Greg ^c   Rakoczy, John ^d   Montgomery, E E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Blue Line Engineering Inc   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alignment maintenance; Edge sensors; Hobby Eberly Telescope; Segmented mirror

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; SENSORS;

HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037508931     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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