The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6986, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Johns, Matt ^a  

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

ELT; Giant magellan telescope; GMT

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; STATIC ANALYSIS;

GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPES; TELESCOPE STRUCTURE;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 43549122321     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.801254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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