The thirty meter telescope site testing robotic computer system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Riddle, Reed L ^a   Schöck, Matthias ^a   Skidmore, Warren ^a  

^a Thirty Meter Telescope Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Robotic; Site testing; Telescope control software; Telescopes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER CONTROL; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ROBOTIC COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SITE TESTING; TELESCOPE CONTROL SOFTWARE; WEATHER STATIONS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749013411     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672658     Document Type: Conference Paper

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