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Field guide to astronomical instrumentation / Christoph Keller, Ramon Navarro, Bernhard Brandl

Author
Keller, Christoph U.
Published
Bellingham, Washington (1000 20th St. Bellingham WA 98225-6705 USA) : SPIE, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 145 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Navarro, Ramón, Brandl, Bernhard R., and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
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Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Contents
Glossary of symbols and acronyms -- General optics -- Optical elements -- Detectors -- Telescopes and imagers -- Spectrographs -- Polarimeters -- Interferometers -- Coronagraphs -- Adaptive optics -- Optical design -- Optomechanics -- Vacuum and cryogenics -- Software and electronics -- Systems engineering -- Manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing -- Appendices -- Equation summary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary
This Field Guide provides readers with a concise, organized reference that explains the functions and configurations of astronomical instrumentation. This book provides an overview of aspects of astronomical instrumentation from principles of general optics and optical design to optical manufacturing and systems engineering. Practitioners will also gain valuable insight from remarks on polarimeters, interferometers, coronagraphs, cryogenics, software, and more.
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ISBN
9781628411782 electronic
9781628411775 alk. paper
Note
"SPIE Digital Library."--Website.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-126) and index.
Other Forms
Also available in print version.
Technical Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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