The Liverpool Telescope: Performance and first results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 679-692

  Steele, I A ^a   Smith, R J ^a   Rees, P C ^b   Baker, I P ^b   Bates, S D ^a   Bode, M F ^a   Bowman, M K ^b   Carter, D ^a   Etherton, J ^a   Ford, M J ^b   Fraser, S N ^a   Gomboc, A ^a   Lett, R D J ^b   Mansfield, A G ^b   Marchant, J M ^a   Medrano Cerda, G A ^b   Mottram, C J ^a   Raback, D ^a   Scott, A B ^a   Tomlinson, M D ^a   Zamanov, R ^a   more..

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Telescope Technologies Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automated; Design; Performance; Robotic; Science; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; FUSED SILICA; IMAGE QUALITY; MACHINE DESIGN; OPTICAL DESIGN; ROBOTICS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRACKING (POSITION);

AUTOMATED; CASSEGRAIN DEROTATOR; COMMISSIONING PROCESSES; LIVERPOOL TELESCOPE;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444268877     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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