MAGIQ at the W. M. Keck Observatory, initial deployment of a new acquisition, guiding and image quality monitoring system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Adkins, Sean M ^a   Cohen, Judith G ^b   Aycock, Joel ^a   Bella, James ^a   Cohen, Richard ^a   Cooper, Andrew ^a   Goodrich, Bob ^a   Johnson, Jimmy ^a   Kwok, Shui H ^a   Lyke, Jim ^a   McCann, Kevin ^a   Neyman, Chris ^a   Nordina, Tom ^a   Panteleeva, Sergey ^a   Tolletha, Grant ^a   Tsubota, Myrna ^a  

^a W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Guiding; Wavefront sensing

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; GUIDING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IMAGE QUALITY MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; KECK OBSERVATORY; KECK TELESCOPES; LOW ORDER; MULTI-FUNCTION; NEW SYSTEM; QUALITY MONITORING; QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVEFRONT SENSING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; CAMERAS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONITORING; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES; WAVEFRONTS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

EID: 66249100586     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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