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Progress Report on the Performance of the Multiple Mirror Telescope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jacques M. Beckers  and
Bobby L. Ulich
Jacques M. Beckers
Affiliation:
Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
Bobby L. Ulich
Affiliation:
Multiple Mirror Telescope Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

Abstract

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The MMT utilizes a number of most unusual features many of which will probably be included in future advanced technology telescopes. We report here on the performance of these unconventional functions as we have determined them until now.

Type
Section I: Optical Telescopes, Existing And Planned
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 67: Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes , 1982 , pp. 11 - 19
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1982

References

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