Design of a collimator support to provide flexure control on cassegrain spectrographs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3355, Issue , 1998, Pages 155-163

  Radovan, Matthew ^a   Bigelow, Bruce C ^b   Nelson, Jerry E ^a   Sheinis, Andrew ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHELLETTE SPECTROGRAPH AND IMAGER; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLEXURE CONTROLS; FRAME STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL DESIGNS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROGRAPHS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 63649110883     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.316826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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