The 6.5 meter MMT's f/5 wide-field optics and instruments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 767-778

  Fabricant, D ^a   Fata, R ^a   McLeod, B ^a   Szentgyorgyi, A ^a   Barberis, J ^a   Bergner, H ^a   Brown, W ^a   Caldwell, N ^a   Conroy, M ^a   Eng, R ^a   Epps, H ^b   Furesz, G ^a   Gauron, T ^a   Geary, J ^a   Goddard, R ^a   Hartmann, L ^a   Hertz, E ^a   Honsa, M ^a   Mueller, M ^a   Norton, T ^a   Ordway, M ^a   Roll Jr , J ^a   Williams, G ^c   Freedman Woods, D ^a   Zajac, J ^a   more..

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c MMT Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Ccd mosaic; Imagers; Optical design; Spectrographs; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; FUSED SILICA; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBERS; ROBOTICS; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTROSCOPY;

CCD MOSAIC; COMMISSIONING PROCESS; IMAGING CONFIGUARATION;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444221772     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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