Suitable off-axis space-based telescope designs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5487, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1111-1118

  Moretto, Gil ^a   Langlois, Maud ^a   Ferrari, Marc ^b  

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Low Emissivity; Low Scattered Light; Off Axis Telescope Performance

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHOTOMETRY;

FIELD OF VIEW (FOV); LOW EMISSIVITY; LOW SCATTERED LIGHT; OFF-AXIS TELESCOPE PERFORMANCE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10044274374     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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