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Large Telescope Wind Loading

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Fred F. Forbes
Fred F. Forbes*
Affiliation:
Advanced Development Program, National Optical Astronomy Observatories

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One important large telescope design study area is the dynamic image degradation caused by wind forces upon various telescope structures and optical elements. The need to establish rapid thermal equilibration with the observatory environment further complicates the wind exposure problem. On the other hand, a telescope deeply embedded in a large enclosure is subject to dome induced seeing difficulties unless great care is used to eliminate any thermal differences among telescope structure, optics, dome interior and inside and outside air. While dome seeing is outside the scope of this paper, it should not be neglected in the consideration of enclosure design because wind protection and seeing are inexorably coupled.

Type
II. Mirrors and Domes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 165 - 175
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

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