2dF: The AAT's planned wide-field, multi-fibre spectroscopic survey facility. Report on commissioning the 2dF Corrector/ADC

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2198, Issue , 1994, Pages 136-142

  Taylor, Keith ^a   Gray, Peter ^a,b  

^a ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURVEYS; TELESCOPES;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; COMMISSIONING TEST; FIELD OF VIEWS; PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS; PRIME-FOCUS; SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS; STATISTICAL STUDY;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS;

EID: 80051937801     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.176797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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