Improving the blanco telescope's delivered image quality

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7733, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Abbott, Timothy M C ^a   Montane, Andrés ^a   Tighe, Roberto ^a   Walker, Alistair R ^a   Gregory, Brooke ^a   Smith, R Christopher ^a   Cisternas, Alfonso ^a  

^a CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Environment; Image quality; Opto mechanics; Telescope

Indexed keywords

DARK ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL; OPTO-MECHANICS; OPTOMECHANICAL; PRIMARY MIRRORS; SUPPORT STRUCTURES; TELESCOPE CONTROL SYSTEM;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; IMAGE QUALITY; MECHANICS; MIRRORS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 77958133499     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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