Mass-Dimm Setup at Palomar

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May 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...21011701t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 210, #117.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.242

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We describe the implementation at Palomar Observatory of an automatic, robotic atmospheric turbulence monitoring system. The system is based on a 12 inch Meade RCX-400 telescope, coupled with a combined MASS-DIMM unit built at Tololo. The system operates every clear night and stores measurements of the vertical turbulence profile, along with derived turbulence parameters such as seeing, in a database. These values are available in real time to observers. The MASS information has been tested to accurately predict the field dependent point spread function from the Palomar Adaptive Optics System. These predictions have enabled enhanced photometry and astrometry with imaging detectors on the Hale 200-inch telescope. The information has also been used by observers to optimize observing strategies in response to seeing conditions, particularly during Adaptive Optics (AO) and Laser Guide Star (LGS-AO) observing runs.

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