Mirror, dome, and natural seeing at CFHT
- Author:
-
Racine, Rene, Salmon, Derrick, Cowley, David, Sovka, Jerry
- Title:
- Mirror, dome, and natural seeing at CFHT
- Periodical:
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Pacific
- Year:
- 1991
- Volume:
- 103
- Pages:
- 1020-1032
- Subject:
-
Atmospheric turbulence Mauna Kea
Telescopes
- Summary:
- Factors affecting image quality (IQ) include telescope mirror, dome environment, and atmosphere. The authors presented the functions for evaluating the image spread FWHM due to mirror seeing, dome seeing, optical aberrations of primary mirror, and the natural atmospheric seeing.
- Label:
- Mauna Kea - Astronomy
- URL:
- http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991PASP..103.1020R
- Date:
- 1991
- Collection:
- Periodicals