The Magellan Telescopes: A Performance Update

The Magellan Baade and Clay telescopes regularly produce images of ~0.5" in natural seeing. We review efforts to improve collimation, active optics response, and telescope guiding and pointing to optimize the performance of the telescopes. Procedures have been developed to monitor and analyze i...

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Main Authors: Palunas, Povilas, Floyd, David, Eychaner, Glenn, Osip, David J., Schechter, Paul L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61639
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5665-4172