Large bearings with incorporated gears, high stiffness and precision for the Swedish Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma

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   Scharmer, Göran B ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d The Institute For Solar Physics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

High resolution; Seeing; Solar telescope; Stick slip motion; Telescope bearings; Telescope drives; Telescope optics; Telescope stiffness

Indexed keywords

SOLAR TELESCOPE; SWEDISH SOLAR TELESCOPE (SST); TELESCOPE BEARINGS; TELESCOPE DRIVES; TELESCOPE OPTICS;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); DOMES; FRICTION; GEAR TEETH; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STIFFNESS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 33749593090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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