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Temperature-Focus relationship for Hydra

The plot below shows the change of the telescope focus with temperature, courtesy of Patricio Ugarte. The relationship can be used to provide a good guess at the focus for nights with poor seeing or partly cloudy conditions, and for an update of the focus during the night following temperature changes.

the temperature-focus relationship for hydra

 

Last updated
20oct01 k.olsen
 

Source URL (modified on 06/13/2011 - 17:14): http://www.ctio.noao.edu/noao/content/Temperature-Focus-relationship-Hydra