PILOT: A wide-field telescope for the Antarctic plateau

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7012, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Saunders, Will ^a   Gillingham, Peter ^a   McGrath, Andrew ^a   Haynes, Roger ^a   Brzeski, Jurek ^a   Storey, John ^b   Lawrence, Jon ^b  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Infrared; Optical; Telescopes; Wide field

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; ANTARCTICA; DIFFRACTION LIMITED; DOME SEEING; FIELD OF VIEWS; INFRARED; LARGE OPTICAL TELESCOPE; LUCKY IMAGING; OPTICAL; SITE CONDITIONS; SURFACE LAYER TURBULENCE; SURFACE LAYERS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TIP-TILT; WIDE-FIELD;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; DOMES; HUMIDITY CONTROL; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 66749129118     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.788651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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