Mounting large lenses in wide-field instruments for the converted MMT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 275-284

  Fata, R G ^a   Fabricant, D G ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical and multi object spectroscopy; Optics mounts

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INSTRUMENTS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPECTROGRAPHS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL EXPANSIONS; DUAL BEAMS; FLEXURAL ELEMENTS; GRAVITY LOADS; GRAVITY VECTORS; LARGE LENS; LARGE OPTICS; OPTICAL AND MULTI-OBJECT SPECTROSCOPY; PRIMARY MIRRORS; REFRACTIVE ELEMENTS; SPACE CONSTRAINTS; TEMPERATURE RANGES; WIDE FIELDS;

MOUNTINGS;

EID: 62849097755     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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