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Acquisition and Guiding

There are two wholly independent systems for guiding the telescope when using the IRS at f/14: a fast tip-tilt camera and a conventional CCDTV camera on the offset guide probe. (A map of the guider fields is available on the web:
http://www.ctio.noao.edu/instruments/ir_instruments/guiding/guiding.html).



 

robert blum x297
1998-04-25