MMT Pointing And Tracking

Anthony D. Poyner; John W. Montgomery; Bobby L. Ulich

doi:10.1117/12.963506

20 August 1986 MMT Pointing And Tracking

Anthony D. Poyner, John W. Montgomery, Bobby L. Ulich

Proceedings Volume 0628, Advanced Technology Optical Telescopes III; (1986) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.963506
Event: 1986 Astronomy Conferences, 1986, Tucson, United States

Abstract

The Multiple Mirror Telescope exhibits good tracking performance and excellent pointing accuracy. Considerable engineering effort has been expended over the past four years to investigate methods for improving accuracy, and to identify and understand the sources of the remaining errors. We can achieve tracking errors as low as 0.5 arcseconds peak-to-peak without autoguiding, and RMS pointing errors better than 1 arcsecond, but changes of approach may be needed to reach our tracking performance goals.

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Anthony D. Poyner, John W. Montgomery, and Bobby L. Ulich "MMT Pointing And Tracking", Proc. SPIE 0628, Advanced Technology Optical Telescopes III, (20 August 1986); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.963506

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