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From Passive Support Systems to the NTT Active Support

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R.N. Wilson ,
F. Franza  and
L. Noethe
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

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ESO has two telescope projects: the NTT (New Technology Telescope) with 3.5 m aperture and the VLT (Very Large Telescope) with 16 m equivalent aperture. The former is already in the engineering phase and should be completed in 1987; the latter is still in the study phase and will be described at this conference by our colleague, D. Enard.

This paper is concerned with the primary support system of the NTT. The basic principles and layout of this support have already been described in the literature 1,2,3).

Type
II. Mirrors and Domes
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 79: Very Large Telescopes, their Instrumentation and Programs , 1984 , pp. 23 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © ESO 1984

References

1. Wilson, R.N., “Image quality considerations in ESO telescope projects”, ICO-12 Conference in Graz, Sept. 1981, Optica Acta 29(7), 985, 1982.Google Scholar
2. Franza, F. and Wilson, R.N., “Status of ESO NTT project”, SPIE Conf. Proc. “Advanced Technology Optical Telescopes” 332, 90, 1982.Google Scholar
3. Wilson, R.N., “The NTT: Predecesssor of the VLT”, Proc. of ESO Workshop in Cargèse on the VLT, May 1983, 173.Google Scholar
4. Ballio, G., Citterio, O., Contro, R. and Poggi, C. “A mathematical approach to optimum design and active control of primary mirrors”, Proc. of IAU Colloquium No. 79, ESO Garching, April 1984.Google Scholar
5. Citterio, O., Conti, G. Mattaini, E. and Franza, F., “Support system for the 1 m active optics experiment”, Proc. of IAU Colloquium No. 79, ESO Garching, April 1984.Google Scholar