Progress on the 1.6-meter new solar telescope at big bear solar observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Denker, C ^a   Goode, P R ^a   Ren, D ^a   Saadeghvaziri, M A ^a   Verdoni, A P ^a   Wang, H ^a   Yang, G ^a   Abramenko, V ^b   Cao, W ^b   Coulter, R ^b   Fear, R ^b   Nenow, J ^b   Shoumko, S ^b   Spirock, T J ^b   Varsik, J R ^b   Chae, J ^c   Kuhn, J R ^d   Moon, Y ^e   Park, Y D ^e   Tritschler, A ^f  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)   (South Korea)

^f NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Solar telescopes; Telescope control systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; OPTICAL DESIGN; POLARIMETERS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

BIG BEAR SOLAR OBSERVATORY (BBSO); HIGH-RESOLUTION SPECTRO-POLARIMETRY; NEW SOLAR TELESCOPE (NST); SOLAR TELESCOPES; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749258166     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.671870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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