Automation of the OAN/SPM 1.5-meter Johnson telescope for operations with RATIR

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8444, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Watson, Alan M ^a   Richer, Michael G ^a   Bloom, Joshua S ^b   Butler, Nathaniel R ^c   Ceseña, Urania ^a   Clark, David ^a   Colorado, Enrique ^a   Córdova, Antolín ^a   Farah, Alejandro ^a   Fox Machado, Lester ^a   Fox, Ori D ^d   García, Benjamín ^a   Georgiev, Leonid N ^a   González, J Jesús ^a   Guisa, Gerardo ^a   Gutiérrez, Leonel ^a   Herrera, Joel ^a   Klein, Christopher R ^b   Kutyrev, Alexander S ^d,e   Lazo, Francisco ^a   Lee, William H ^a   López, Eduardo ^a   Luna, Esteban ^a   Martínez, Benjamín ^a   Murillo, Francisco ^a   Murillo, José Manuel ^a   Núñez, Juan Manuel ^a   Prochaska, J Xavier ^f   Ochoa, José Luis ^a   Quirós, Fernando ^a   Rapchun, David A ^d,g   Román Zúñiga, Carlos ^a   Valyavin, Gennady ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g GLOBAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic telescopes; Telescope guiding; Telescope pointing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TELESCOPES; CALIFORNIA; ME-XICO; REIONIZATION; TELESCOPE GUIDING; TELESCOPE POINTING;

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 84871740386     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.926927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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