Telescope Alignment by Out-of-Focus Stellar Image Analysis

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Jan 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999pasp..111..104l&link_type=abstract

The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 111, Issue 755, pp. 104-110.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Instrumentation: Miscellaneous, Methods: Observational, Techniques: Miscellaneous, Telescopes

Scientific paper

We present an analysis of the familiar method of analyzing out-of-focus stellar images to align Cassegrain reflector telescopes. We measure the asymmetry in the out-of-focus image as the difference in positions of the centers of the bordering circles. By exact raytracing we find that the asymmetry can be expressed as a linear combination of tip/tilt and displacement of the secondary mirror. Furthermore and surprisingly, the difference in the positions of the centers does not depend on the amount of defocus, and so only two parameters of the linear combination are needed to align the telescope. These parameters depend only on the telescope design parameters. Finally, we report experimental results carried out with the 1.5 m telescope of UNAM, which verify the outlined numerical results.

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