The Magellan telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4837, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 910-918

  Shectman, Stephen ^a   Johns, Matt ^a  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Instrumentation; Large telescopes; Mirror support; Telescope mount

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED SPECTROGRAPHS; MIRRORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE OPTICS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038752038     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457909     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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4. S. A. Shectman, "The Magellan Project", Telescope Structures, Enclosures, Controls, Assembly/Integration/ Validation and Commissioning, eds. T. A. Sebring and T. Andersen, Proc. SPIE 4004, pp. 47-56, 2000.