SALT prime focus payload development

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 858-869

  Esterhuyse, S Willem P ^a,b   Brink, Janus D ^a,b   Nel, C J A ^a,b   Swat, Arek ^a,b  

^a SALT   (South Africa)

^b SALT Foundation   (South Africa)

Author keywords

HET; Instrument; Optics; Payload; SALT; Southern African Large Telescope

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ATMOSPHERICS; CARBON FIBERS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; IMAGE QUALITY; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION COMPENSATOR (ADC); HET; INSTRUMENTATION; PAYLOAD; SOUTH AFRICAN LARGE TELESCOPE (SALT);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444241863     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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