ISPI: The Infrared Side Port Imager for the CTIO 4-m telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4841, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 411-419

  Probst, Ronald G ^a,b   Montane, Andres ^b   Warner, Michael ^b   Boccas, Maxime ^b,c   Bonati, Marco ^b,d   Galvez, Ramon ^b   Tighe, Roberta ^b   Ashe, Mike ^e   Van der Bliek, Nicole ^b   Blum, Robert ^b  

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory   (Chile)

^c GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SOAR Consortium   (Chile)

Author keywords

Array control; Infrared camera; Infrared imaging; Instrument control; Optical design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE SENSORS; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL DESIGN;

INFRARED SIDE PORT IMAGERS (ISPI);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038296901     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.461435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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