Seeing statistics at the upgraded 3.8m UK infrared telescope (UKIRT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4844, Issue , 2002, Pages 366-375

  Seigar, Marc S ^a   Adamson, Andy J ^a   Rees, Nicholas P ^a   Hawarden, Timothy G ^b   Currie, Malcolm J ^c   Chuter, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Facility seeing; Sub mm seeing; Telescope optical quality

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; MIRRORS; STATISTICS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

FOCUS FLUCTUATIONS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037966963     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.460604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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