Design concepts for the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)

Jerry E. Nelson

doi:10.1117/12.393933

2 August 2000 Design concepts for the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)

Jerry E. Nelson

Proceedings Volume 4004, Telescope Structures, Enclosures, Controls, Assembly/Integration/Validation, and Commissioning; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.393933
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The California Extremely Large Telescope is a study currently underway by the University of California and the California Institute of Technology, to assess the feasibility of building a 30-m ground based telescope that will push the frontiers to observational astronomy. The telescope will be fully steerable, with a large field of view, and be able to work in both a seeing-limited arena and as a diffraction-limited telescope, with adaptive optics.

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Jerry E. Nelson "Design concepts for the California Extremely Large Telescope (CELT)", Proc. SPIE 4004, Telescope Structures, Enclosures, Controls, Assembly/Integration/Validation, and Commissioning, (2 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.393933

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