The Hobby-Eberly Telescope low resolution spectrograph

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 375-386

  Hill, G J ^a   Nicklas, H ^b   MacQueen, P J ^a   De Tejada V , C ^c   Cobos D , F J ^c   Mitsch, W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; Spectrographs

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION; CONFIGURABLE; FIELD OF VIEWS; GERMANY; HIGH THROUGHPUTS; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPES; IMAGE SCALE; IMAGING SPECTROGRAPHS; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; LARGE TELESCOPES; LOW RESOLUTIONS; MC-DONALD; ME-XICO; MECHANICAL ASPECTS; MODES OF OPERATIONS; MULTI OBJECTS; MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPIES; PRIME FOCUS; REMOTE LOCATIONS; STANFORD UNIVERSITIES; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS;

ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DIGITAL CAMERAS; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; LIGHT; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PIXELS; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 62849096518     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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