Starbug - Enabling the smart focal plane

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5495, Issue , 2004, Pages 600-610

  McGrath, Andrew ^a   Moore, Anna ^b  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fibre; Instrumentation; Multi object spectroscopy; Positioner; Robotics

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CRYOGENICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIRRORS; ROBOTICS; SPECTROSCOPY;

FIBER; INSTRUMENTATION; MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; POSITIONER;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 12344332648     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.550292     Document Type: Conference Paper

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