Performance of the facility instruments on the Hobby-Eberly telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-54

  Hill, Gary J ^a   MacQueen, Phillip J ^a   Ramsey, Lawrence W ^b  

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

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation: Spectrographs; Telescopes: Hobby Eberly Telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038184210     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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