The hardware control system for WEAVE at the William Herschel telescope

When an alt-azimuth telescope is tracking at a specific field, it is necessary to use a de-rotator system to compensate the Earth’s rotation of the field of view. In order, to keep the telescope tracking the field of view selected, the instrument will need to a rotation system for compensating it [1...

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Main Authors: Delgado, J, Mendoza, S, Burgal, J, Herreros, J, Picó, S, Abrams, D, Martin, C, Cano, D, Gribbin, F, Skvarc, J, Dee, K, Lhome, E, Dalton, G, Middleton, K, Trager, S, Aguerri, J, Bonifacio, P, Vallenari, A, Carrasco, E
Format: Conference item
Language:English
Published: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers 2018