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1 September 1991 Surface control techniques for the segmented primary mirror in the large lunar telescope
Anthony D. Gleckler, Kent P. Pflibsen, Bobby Lee Ulich, Duane D. Smith
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Abstract
The large lunar telescope is a proposed moon-based telescope which incorporates a sixteen-meter segmented primary mirror. An error budget is developed for the active control system of the primary mirror. A control methodology for the primary mirror is then described which utilizes piston sensors for measuring the relative piston error between adjacent segments as well as a separate sensor which measures the tilt of each segment with respect to the pointing direction of the telescope. A trade study is conducted in which the following types of tilt sensors are examined to determine their applicability to this program: stellar wavefront sensors, such as a Hartmann-Shack or a shearing interferometer; holographic optical elements; interferometers; scanning systems; and some nonoptical systems which electronically measure the relative tilt between adjacent segments. In addition, two independent methods of quantitatively verifying the performance of the telescope using either a phase retrieval algorithm or an image sharpening technique, both of which are based on the quality of a stellar image, are presented.
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Anthony D. Gleckler, Kent P. Pflibsen, Bobby Lee Ulich, and Duane D. Smith "Surface control techniques for the segmented primary mirror in the large lunar telescope", Proc. SPIE 1494, Space Astronomical Telescopes and Instruments, (1 September 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.46743
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Space telescopes

Telescopes

Mirrors

Control systems

Image segmentation

Astronomical telescopes

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