Conceptual design for the optomechanical systems of the New Robotic Telescope

A. Oria; M. Torres; J. J. Fernandez-Valdivia; C. M. Gutiérrez; A. García Piñero; D. Copley; A. Ranjbar; J. Gracia Rodríguez

doi:10.1117/12.2561469

13 December 2020 Conceptual design for the optomechanical systems of the New Robotic Telescope

A. Oria, M. Torres, J. J. Fernandez-Valdivia, C. M. Gutiérrez, A. García Piñero, D. Copley, A. Ranjbar, J. Gracia Rodríguez

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Proceedings Volume 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII; 1144549 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561469
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2020, Online Only

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The New Robotic Telescope (NRT) will be the largest fully robotic telescope in the world (4-m class). The primary mirror (M1) will be comprised of 18 independent 960 mm hexagonal segments with an actively controlled position to maintain the shape of the optical surface. The secondary mirror (M2) will be a lightweighted circular mirror of 1270 mm of diameter. This contribution presents the conceptual design and preliminary results of the M1 segment support assembly and a first study of two lightweighted substrate candidates for the M2 mirror.

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A. Oria, M. Torres, J. J. Fernandez-Valdivia, C. M. Gutiérrez, A. García Piñero, D. Copley, A. Ranjbar, and J. Gracia Rodríguez "Conceptual design for the optomechanical systems of the New Robotic Telescope", Proc. SPIE 11445, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII, 1144549 (13 December 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561469

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