The optical design of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 564-575

  Swat, Arek ^a   O'Donoghue, Darragh ^b   Swiegers, Jian ^a   Nel, Leon ^a   Buckley, David ^a  

^a SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE FOUNDATION   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Atmospheric dispersion; Error budget; Focusing; Guiding; Large telescopes; Non axisymmetric distortion; Optical design; Optical model; Segmented mirrors

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

PRIMARY MIRROR ALIGNMENT SYSTEMS (PMAS);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037959807     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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