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UKIRT

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Active Optics at UKIRT

Active Optics at UKIRT

08/06/98

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Table of Contents
Active Optics at UKIRT
Introduction
Primary Mirror Support System
Wavefront Sensing on UKIRT
Astigmatism
Coma
Trefoil
Spherical
Focus & Temperature
Conclusions
Author:
Antonio Chrysostomou

Email: acc@jach.hawaii.edu

Home Page:
https://about.ifa.hawaii.edu/ukirt/telescope-information/wfs/

Other information:
Presentation given at the SPIE meeting in in March 1998 at the Kona Surf Hotel, Kona, Hawai’i

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