Optical performance of the 6.5-m off-axis New Planetary Telescope

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2782-2789

  Moretto, Gil ^a   Kuhn, Jeff R ^b  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOMETRY;

ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037816207     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.002782     Document Type: Article

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