Optical Design for a New Off-Axis 1.7 m Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5171, Issue , 2004, Pages 333-343

  Didkovsky, Leonid ^a   Kuhn, Jeff ^b   Goode, Phil ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Optics; Off Axis Telescope; Optical Design

Indexed keywords

OFF-AXIS TELESCOPE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; MAGNETOMETERS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUN; VECTORS;

OPTICAL DESIGN;

EID: 1942422649     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.518671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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