The Software for MAGIQ: A new acquisition, guiding and image quality monitoring system at the W. M. Keck Observatory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7019, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kwoka, Shui Hung ^a   Johnson, Jimmy ^a   Adkins, Sean M ^a   McCanna, Kevin ^a  

^a W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Guiding; Image quality; Software; Telescope controls

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION; GUIDING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; IMAGE QUALITY MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; KECK OBSERVATORY; KECK TELESCOPES; MULTI-FUNCTION; QUALITY MONITORING; QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SOFTWARE FEATURES; TELESCOPE CONTROLS; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; ASTROPHYSICS; BUILDINGS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MONITORING; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; QUALITY CONTROL; TELESCOPES; USER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 66249111681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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