Buyer's guide to telescopes at the best sites: Dome A, L2 and shackleton rim

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 1-12

  Angel, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOTODETECTORS; SPACE RESEARCH; TORQUE;

PRECURSORS; SOLAR SHIELDING; SOLAR TORQUE; SPACE EXPLORATION;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044230675     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.596320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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