Active optics and control architecture for a giant segmented mirror telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 129-139

  Angeli, George Z ^b   Cho, Myung K ^b   Whorton, Mark S ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b AURA New Initiatives Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Segmented mirror control; Telescope control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FEEDBACK CONTROL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIRRORS;

MIRROR TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038664229     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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