Integrating seeing measurements into the operations of solar telescopes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Denker, C ^a   Verdoni, A P ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Seeing; Site survey; Telescope control

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SCHEDULING; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; VISION;

GEOGRAPHICAL PARAMETERS; NEW SOLAR TELESCOPE (NST; SITE SURVEY; TELESCOPE CONTROL;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749245831     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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