Atmospheric spatial and temporal seeing monitor using portable amateur astronomy equipment

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5490, Issue PART 2, 2004, Pages 785-793

  Seneta, Eugene B ^a   O'Donovan, Bridget ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCD; DIMM; Linux; Seeing; Site testing; Speckle; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; CONDITION MONITORING; DIFFRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED DETECTORS; INTERFEROMETERS; MOTION COMPENSATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPECKLE;

CAMBRIDGE OPTICAL APERTURE SYNTHESIS TELESCOPE (COAST); DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE MOTION MONITOR (DIMM); LINUX; OPTICAL ASTRONOMY;

ASTRONOMY;

EID: 11144302529     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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