Combined interferometry and ray tracing analysis to optimise the alignment of astronomical telescopes

Details Combined interferometry and ray tracing analysis to optimise the alignment of astronomical telescopes Combined interferometry and ray tracing analysis to optimise the alignment of astronomical telescopes

Aug 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990spie.1271..340a&link_type=abstract

IN: Adaptive optics and optical structures; Proceedings of the Meeting, European Congress on Optics, 3rd, The Hague, Netherlands

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Optics

Instrument Orientation, Interferometry, Ray Tracing, Telescopes, Wave Fronts, Aberration, Adaptive Optics, Imaging Techniques, Mirrors, Seeing (Astronomy)

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A practical method for reducing geometric aberrations resulting from the misalignment of an astronomical telescope is presented. The wavefront distortion is measured with a lateral shearing interferometer placed near the telescope focus. Atmospheric seeing conditions do not need to be particularly good. Ray tracing optimization is applied to the optical design and is combined with the observed aberrations to compute the corrections required for the telescope alignment. Applications to a 0.5m Ritchey-Chretien telescope are discussed.

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