Completion of the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) primary mirror system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 881-891

  Swiegers, Jian ^a   Gajjar, Hitesh ^a  

^a SOUTHERN AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE FOUNDATION   (South Africa)

Author keywords

10 m class telescope; Alignment; Cost effective; Design solutions; Primary Mirror; Segmented

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CARBON DIOXIDE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTILLATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; SPECTROSCOPY;

10-M CLASS TELESCOPE; DESIGN SOLUTIONS; PRIMARY MIRROR; SEGMENTED; SOUTH AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE (SALT);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444220954     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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