The IRAIT project: Infrared astronomy from Antarctica

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 742-753

  Tosti, Gino ^a   Busso, Maurizio ^a   Straniero, Oscar ^b   Abia, Carlos ^c   Bagaglia, Marco ^a   Dolci, Mauro ^b   Corcione, Leonardo ^d   Nucciarelli, Giuliano ^a   Roncella, Fabio ^a   Valentini, Gaetano ^b   Varano, Igor Di ^b   Pelusi, Danilo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infrared camera; Instrumentation; Robotic telescopes

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; OBSERVATORIES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS;

INFRARED CAMERA; INSTRUMENTATION; ROBOTIC TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444275547     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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