Progress on the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 47-59

  Nelson, Jerry ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

CELT; Observatory; Optics; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; DIFFRACTION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED RADIATION; MIRRORS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL DESIGN;

TERTIARY MIRRORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038664232     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.464902     Document Type: Conference Paper

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