Preliminary optical designs for an MMT upgrade - A 256-inch filled-aperture optical/infrared telescope

Physics – Optics

Scientific paper

Rate now

  [ 0.00 ] – not rated yet Voters 0   Comments 0

Details

Design Analysis, Infrared Telescopes, Optical Correction Procedure, Optical Properties, Cassegrain Optics, Lens Design, Mirrors, Self Consistent Fields

Scientific paper

An optical design utilizing a 256-inch f/1.00 parabolic primary mirror is proposed to convert the existing Multiple Mirror Telescope to a maximum diameter, filled-aperture optical/infrared telescope without substantial modification. A 40-arcmin-diameter flat field of view is provided at an f/4.5 optical Cassegrain focus to allow the resulting image to give a sampling factor of 3.5 (27 microns) pixels per (2/3 arcsec) spatial information element. An f/9.0 Cassegrain focal expander-corrector with an atmospheric dispersion compensator is proposed which uses the f/4.5 secondary mirror.

No associations

LandOfFree

Say what you really think

Search LandOfFree.com for scientists and scientific papers. Rate them and share your experience with other people.

Rating

Preliminary optical designs for an MMT upgrade - A 256-inch filled-aperture optical/infrared telescope does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Preliminary optical designs for an MMT upgrade - A 256-inch filled-aperture optical/infrared telescope, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Preliminary optical designs for an MMT upgrade - A 256-inch filled-aperture optical/infrared telescope will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

     

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1624582

  Search
All data on this website is collected from public sources. Our data reflects the most accurate information available at the time of publication.