Small IRAIT: Telescope operations during the polar night

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7016, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Briguglio, R ^a   Tosti, G ^f   Busso, M ^f   Bagaglia, M ^f   Nucciarelli, G ^f   Mancini, A ^f   Castellini, S ^b   Strassmeier, K G ^c   Straniero, O ^d   Sabbatini, L ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Teramo Observatory   (Italy)

^e University of Roma3   (Italy)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGB STARS; ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; BLAZARS; CASSEGRAIN TELESCOPES; DUTY CYCLES; ECLIPSING BINARIES; IN-SITU; MULTIBAND; OPEN CLUSTERS; TELESCOPE OPERATIONS;

BUILDINGS; DOMES; OBSERVATORIES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 73449091560     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.791908     Document Type: Conference Paper

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