Airborne telescope with large aperture

Pade Offer; Yehuda Nachshon

doi:10.1117/12.18358

1 May 1990 Airborne telescope with large aperture

Pade Offer, Yehuda Nachshon

Proceedings Volume 1221, Propagation of High-Energy Laser Beams Through the Earth's Atmosphere; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18358
Event: OE/LASE '90, 1990, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

A detailed calculations of the optical quality of a large aperture telescope mounted aboard an aircraft is presented. The open fuselage platform flies at high altitude, at near sonic speed. The optical degradation of the telescope performance due to the surrounding is evaluated.

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Pade Offer and Yehuda Nachshon "Airborne telescope with large aperture", Proc. SPIE 1221, Propagation of High-Energy Laser Beams Through the Earth's Atmosphere, (1 May 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18358

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