The concept design of the discovery channel telescope mount

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 950-961

  Porter, David S ^a   Sebring, Thomas A ^b   Smith, Byron ^b   Finley, David ^a   Baine, Fred ^a   Hermann, Kerstan G ^a  

^a VertexRSI   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

4 m telescope; Discovery Channel; Lowell; VertexRSI

Indexed keywords

4-M TELESCOPE; DISCOVERY CHANNEL TELESCOPE (DCT); LOWELL; VERTEXRSI;

ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MIRRORS; SPACE TELESCOPES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444257974     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552343     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

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6. VISTA is funded by a grant from the UK Joint Infrastructure Fund, supported by the Office of Science and Technology and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to Queen Mary University of London on behalf of the 18 University members of the VISTA Consortium of: Queen Mary University of London; Queen's University of Belfast; University of Birmingham; University of Cambridge; Cardiff University; University of Central Lancashire; University of Durham; University of Edinburgh; University of Hertfordshire; Keele University; Leicester University; Liverpool John Moores University; University of Nottingham; University of Oxford; University of St Andrews; University of Southampton; University of Sussex; and University College London. The authors are grateful to the VISTA Program Office and the organizations mentioned above for allowing the use of data for this paper.