Status and performance of Lowell Observatory's Lowell Discovery Telescope's active optical support system
Abstract
Lowell Observatory's Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) is a 4.3-m telescope designed and constructed for optical and near infrared astronomical observation. We examine the performance of the primary and secondary mirror support systems during scientific operations, over the first six years of science operations. During that time we have redesigned the sacrificial pins in the primary mirror lateral support system, and developed a method to re-calibrate the load cell sensors used in both the primary and secondary mirror supports.
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Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
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- Bibcode:
- 2020SPIE11445E..7IC