Progress of Antarctic Schmidt telescopes (AST3) for Dome A

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Yuan, Xiangyan ^a,b   Cui, Xiangqun ^a,b   Gong, Xuefei ^a,b   Wang, Daxing ^a   Yao, Zhengqiu ^a   Li, Xinnan ^a   Wen, Haikun ^a   Zhang, Yajun ^a   Zhang, Ru ^a   Xu, Lingzhe ^a   Zhou, Fang ^a   Wang, Lifan ^b,c   Shang, Zhaohui ^b   Feng, Longlong ^b,c  

^a Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology   (China)

^b Chinese Center for Antarctic Astronomy   (China)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Antarctic schmidt telescope; Defrosting; Dome A; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ASTRONOMY; ANTARCTIC PLATEAU; CLEAR SKY; ENTRANCE PUPIL; LOW TEMPERATURES; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOUR; SCHMIDT TELESCOPE; SITE-TESTING; TELESCOPE ARRAYS; TRACKING;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ASTRONOMY; DEFROSTING; DOMES; EARTH (PLANET);

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958132463     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.856671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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