The VISTA project, a review of its progress and lessons learned developing the current programme

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 638-647

  McPherson, Alistair ^a   Born, Andrew ^a   Sutherland, Will ^b   Emerson, Jim ^c  

^a UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astronomy; Telescope; VISTA; Wide Field

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; DECISION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; MACHINE DESIGN; RISK MANAGEMENT; TELESCOPES;

CASSEGRAIN FOCUS INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSICAL FOCAL POINT; VISIBLE AND INFRARED SURVEY TELESCOPE FOR ASTRONOMY (VISTA); WIDE FIELD ASTRONOMY;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 10444286069     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551233     Document Type: Conference Paper

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