Mechanical design of VIRUS-P for the McDonald 2.7m Harlan J Smith Telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7014, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Smith, Michael P ^a   Hill, Gary J ^a   MacQueen, Phillip J ^a   Altmann, Werner ^b   Goertz, John A ^a   Good, John M ^a   Segura, Pedro R ^a   Wesley, Gordon L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b Konstructionsburo Werner Altmann   (Germany)

Author keywords

Articulating; Gimbal; Hobby Eberly Telescope; IFU; Invar; Opto mechanical design; Spectrograph; VPH grating

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATING; GIMBAL; HOBBY-EBERLY TELESCOPE; IFU; INVAR; OPTO-MECHANICAL DESIGN; VPH GRATING;

ALUMINA; ASTROPHYSICS; CAMERAS; DESIGN; EQUIPMENT TESTING; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; RADIO TELESCOPES; SPECTROGRAPHS;

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES;

EID: 66249123297     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.789872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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