Optical design of the Pan-STARRS telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5489, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 667-678

  Hodapp, Klaus W ^a   Siegmund, Walter A ^b   Kaiser, Nick ^b   Chambers, K C ^b   Laux, Uwe ^c   Morgan, Jeff ^b   Mannery, Ed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical Design; Survey Telescope

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DETECTORS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELESCOPES;

POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROIDS (PHA); SINGLE WIDE FIELD SYNOPTIC SURVEY TELESCOPE; SURVEY TELESCOPES; TELESCOPE DESIGNS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 10444289744     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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