The Hobby-Eberly Telescope low resolution spectrograph: Mechanical design

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 433-445

  Hill, G J ^a   Nicklas, H ^b   MacQueen, P J ^a   Mitsch, W ^c   Wellem, W ^b   Altmann, W ^d   Wesley, G L ^a   Ray, F B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Konstructionsburo Werner Altmann ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Astronomical instrumentation; Mechanical design; Spectrographs

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DESIGN; HALL EFFECT DEVICES; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION; GERMANY; HIGH THROUGHPUTS; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPES; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; LARGE TELESCOPES; LOW RESOLUTIONS; MC-DONALD; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MODES OF OPERATIONS; MULTI OBJECTS; PRIME FOCUS; REMOTE LOCATIONS; STANFORD UNIVERSITIES; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS; WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 62849109077     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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