Active optics and wavefront sensing at the upgraded 6.5-meter MMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 1041-1051

  Pickering, T E ^a   West, S C ^b   Fabricant, D G ^c  

^a MMT Observatory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Active; Large; Shack ; Wavefront

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERRORS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; POLYNOMIALS; SENSORS; WAVEFRONTS;

ACTIVE OPTICS; APERTURES; LARGE TELESCOPES; SHACK-HARTMANN; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444248093     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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