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The ESO Off-line Telescope Testing Technique Illustrated with Results for the MPIA 2.2 m Telescope II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.N. Wilson ,
F. Franza ,
L. Noethe  and
M. Tarenghi
R.N. Wilson
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-8046 Garching
F. Franza
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-8046 Garching
L. Noethe
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-8046 Garching
M. Tarenghi
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-8046 Garching

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The ESO test device is based on the proposal of Shack

Fig. 1 shows the principle of this method, which we call the SHACKHARTMANN (S-H) method as it is derived from the well-known conventional Hartmann technique. The beam from the telescope focus (6) is transmitted by a beam-splitting cube (2) of high quality to a collimating (Fabry) doublet objective (3). This images the exit pupil of the telescope to the plane (4) where a special SHACK lenticular raster is inserted. Each lens of this raster then forms a point image of that part of the parallel beam incident upon it on to a photographic plate (5) placed at the focal distance of the raster lenses from (4). The angular aberration in the telescope image is thus transferred through the system and shows as a transverse displacement of the spots.

Type
II. Mirrors and Domes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 119 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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