Alignment Of A Full Aperture System Test Of A Cassegrain Telescope

Michael J. Fehniger

doi:10.1117/12.959446

31 December 1980 Alignment Of A Full Aperture System Test Of A Cassegrain Telescope

Michael J. Fehniger

Proceedings Volume 0251, Optical Alignment I; (1980) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959446
Event: 24th Annual Technical Symposium, 1980, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The misalignment of the secondary and primary mirrors, in a full aperture Cassegrain test, introduces coma and astigmatism into the wavefront. Equations were derived which relate the magnitude and orientations of these two aberrations to the tilt and decenter of one mirror with respect to the other when tested in an autocollimating mode. By determining the coma and astigmatism, introduced into the wavefront, using Zernike circle polynomial fitting techniques, the tilt and decenter correction can be computed which would optically align the secondary to primary. These alignment equations were verified by using a Space Telescope optical' formula, misaligning the secondary mirror, and calculating the resulting coma and astigmatism in the wavefront. The tilt and decenter, necessary to realign the two mirrors of the Space Telescope were calculated from the derived equations, and found to agree with the perturbed secondary mirror misalignment. An autocollimation test procedure will be described for obtaining the full aperture wavefront of a Cassegrain-type system, both on-axis and in the field.

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Michael J. Fehniger "Alignment Of A Full Aperture System Test Of A Cassegrain Telescope", Proc. SPIE 0251, Optical Alignment I, (31 December 1980); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.959446

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