Towers for telescopes with extreme stability, active or passive?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6273 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hammerschlag, Robert H ^a   Bettonvil, Felix C M ^a,b   Jägers, Aswin P L ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antarctic telescopes; Framework geometries; Gossamer structures; High resolution telescopes; Local seeing; Mechanical stability; Solar telescopes; Telescope towers

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; GOSSAMER STRUCTURES; HIGH RESOLUTION TELESCOPES; LOCAL SEEING; MECHANICAL STABILITY; SOLAR TELESCOPES; TELESCOPE TOWERS; TOWER PLATFORM;

ACTUATORS; MOTION CONTROL; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL SENSORS; ROTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749027039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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