The Discovery Channel Telescope: early integration

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Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010spie.7733e...8s&link_type=abstract

Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III. Edited by Stepp, Larry M.; Gilmozzi, Roberto; Hall, Helen J. Proceedings of the SPIE,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) is a 4.3-meter astronomical research telescope being built in northern Arizona as a partnership between Discovery Communications and Lowell Observatory. The telescope will be able to support substantial instrument payloads at Cassegrain, Nasmyth, and prime foci, and high observing cadences. The first-light configuration will be as an f/6.1 Ritchey-Chrétien at Cassegrain with a 30 arc-minute field-of-view. Major facility work is complete, and the telescope is currently in the integration phase with first-light anticipated in 2011. We present an overview of the design and progress to date, and include plans for final integration, commissioning, and early science.

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