Subaru telescope: Current performances and future upgrade plans

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 1, 2004, Pages 278-287

  Usuda, Tomonori ^a,c   Takato, Naruhisa ^a   Kanzawa, Tomio ^a   Miyashita, Akihiko ^a   Uraguchi, Fumihiro ^a   Kurakami, Tomio ^a   Kosugi, George ^a   Hayashi, Saeko S ^a   Akiyama, Masayuki ^a   Itoh, Noboru ^b   Negishi, Satoru ^b   Sugahara, Shinji ^b   Tanaka, Wataru ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Ground based Large Telescope; Subaru Telescope

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; MIRRORS; REFLECTION;

ACQUISITION GUIDING; AUTO-GUIDER CAMERAS; GROUND-BASED LARGE TELESCOPES; SUBARU TELESCOPE;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444228073     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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