Mirror alignment recovery system (MARS) on the Hobby-Eberly telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 714-725

  Wolf, Marsha J ^a   Palunas, Povilas ^a   Booth, John A ^a   Ward, Michael H ^b   Wirth, Allan ^b   Wesley, Gordon L ^a   O'Donoghue, Darragh ^b   Ramsey, Lawrence W ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alignment; HET; Hobby Eberly; MARS; Primary mirror; Segmented; Shack Hartmann

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SENSORS;

HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037509840     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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