Mercator and the P7-2000 photometer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5492, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 830-840

  Raskin, Gert ^a,c   Burki, Gilbert ^b   Burnet, Michel ^b   Davignon, Geert ^a,c   Dubosson, Rene ^b   Ischi, Emile ^b   George, Michel ^b   Grenon, Michel ^b   Maire, Charles ^b   Van Winckel, Hans ^c   Waelkens, Christoffel ^c   Weber, Luc ^a  

^a Mercator Telescope   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^c KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation: photometry; Atmospheric extinction; Automatic observing; Geneva photometric system; Telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PHOTOMETERS; PHOTOMETRY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEISMOLOGY;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION: PHOTOMETRY; ATMOSPHERIC EXTINCTION; AUTOMATIC OBSERVING; GENEVA PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 10444278116     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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