Active optics and auto-guiding control for VISTA

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5496, Issue , 2004, Pages 129-137

  Terrett, David L ^a   Bissonauth, Nirmal ^b   Graffagnino, Vito ^a   Stewart, Malcolm ^c   Sutherland, Will ^d  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active optics; Auto guiding; Software engineering; TCS; VISTA; VLT

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; WAVEFRONTS;

ACTIVE-OPTICS; AUTO-GUIDING; TCS; VISTA; VLT;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344331709     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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