Determination of the intrinsic site seeing for the Hobby-Eberly telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 225-236

  Barker, Edwin S ^b   Adams, Mark T ^c   Deglman, Frank ^c   Riley, Vicki ^c   George, Teddy ^c   Booth, John A ^b   Rest, Armin ^a   Robinson, Edward L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c McDonald Observatory ^*

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; DIMMs; Dome seeing; Hobby Eberly Telescope; Site seeing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA REDUCTION; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES;

DOME SEEING;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037509842     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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