Shooting Images with VATT, the Fastest Telescope in the West

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...185.1005c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #10.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1322

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Vatican/Steward Observatory's Lennon Telescope (VATT) has a 1.8-m diameter, f/1 primary mirror, generated and polished to 17 nm rms by the Steward Observatory's Mirror Laboratory. Imaging at the f/1 to f/9 Gregorian focus poses its problems but ``second light" at this focus was obtained on July 12, 1994, and immediately, sub-arcsecond images were seen. The secondary, its mount, and its control are described, as are the methods used in achieving and maintaining optimal imaging. A wavefront sensor is helping to tune-up and map the correct collimation. Full commissioning of the telescope will be effected later in 1995.

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