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The Performance of Ground Based Telescopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

D.S. Brown
D.S. Brown*
Affiliation:
Grubb Parsons, Walkergate, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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The paper identifies causes of degradation of image quality in astronomical telescopes, describes how the effects of these can be calculated using MTFs, considers the validity of multiplication of MTFs for this purpose and gives the results of measurement of external and dome seeing, system MTF and image quality obtained during the commissioning of UKIRT.

Type
Section I: Optical Telescopes, Existing And Planned
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 67: Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes , 1982 , pp. 85 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

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