The Hobby-Eberly telescope completion project

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 919-933

  Booth, John A ^a   Wolf, Marsha J ^a   Fowler, James R ^a   Adams, Mark T ^a   Good, John M ^a   Kelton, Phillip W ^a   Barker, Edwin S ^a   Palunas, Povilas ^a   Bash, Frank N ^a   Ramsey, Lawrence W ^a   Hill, Gary J ^a   MacQueen, Phillip J ^a   Cornell, Mark E ^a   Robinson, Edward L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

DIMM; Dome seeing; Dome ventilation; Edge sensors; HET; Hobby Eberly Telescope; MARS; Mirror alignment; SAMS; Shack Hartmann

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DOMES; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MIRROR ALIGNMENT;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038184212     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458223     Document Type: Conference Paper

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