MMT pointing and tracking

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Jan 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986spie..628....9p&link_type=abstract

IN: Advanced technology optical telescopes III; Proceedings of the Meeting, Tucson, AZ, Mar. 3-6, 1986 (A87-35201 15-89). Bellin

Computer Science

Performance

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Mirrors, Optical Tracking, Pointing Control Systems, Position Errors, Telescopes, Computer Programs, Least Squares Method, Numerical Control, Signal Encoding

Scientific paper

The Multiple Mirror Telescope exhibits good tracking performance and excellent pointing accuracy. Considerable engineering effort has been expended over the past four years to investigate methods for improving accuracy, and to identify and understand the sources of the remaining errors. Tracking errors as low as 0.5 arcseconds peak-to-peak without autoguiding and rms pointing errors better than 1 arcsecond are achievable, but changes of approach may be needed to reach tracking performance goals.

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