Site testing for the advanced technology solar telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6267 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hill, F ^a   Beckers, J ^b   Brandt, P ^c   Briggs, J ^d   Brown, T ^e   Brown, W ^f   Collados, M ^g   Denker, C ^h   Fletcher, S ^d   Hegwer, S ^d   Horst, T ^f   Komsa, M ^d   Kuhn, J ⁱ   Lecinski, A ^e   Lin, H ⁱ   Oncley, S ^f   Penn, M ^a   Radick, R ^j   Rimmele, T ^d   Socas Navarro, H ^e   Streander, K ^e   more..

^a NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c KIEPENHEUER INSTITUT FÜR SONNENPHYSIK   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL SOLAR OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^h NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^j AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

ATST; Seeing; Site survey; Sky brightness

Indexed keywords

EQUIPMENT TESTING; GROUND OPERATIONS; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

ADVANCED SOLAR TECHNOLOGY TELESCOPE (ATST); SEEING; SITE SURVEY; SKY BRIGHTNESS; SOLAR TELESCOPE;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749263491     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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