SOAR telescope: 4 meter high performance mount performance results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 77-86

  Warner, C Michael ^a   Krabbendam, Victor ^b   Schumacher, German ^a   Delgadillo, Juan C ^c  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b LSST   (United States)

^c VertexRSI   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic response; Friction; Ground based; Jitter; Optical Telescope; SOAR

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH WOBBLE; DYNAMIC RESPONSES; GROUND BASED; SOAR;

ASTROPHYSICS; BANDWIDTH; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; INTEGRATION; JITTER;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344293707     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.552601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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