Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006 · 11 citations · 0 references
Natural SciencesAstronomyPhysicsOptical AstronomyOpticsPhotonicsOptical InstrumentationTelescope OpticsTelescope Pointing CalibrationOptical Telescope SystemsOptical TelescopesTelescope AberrationsTelescope CalibrationTelescope Objective DesignTelescope SchedulingTelescopesThermo-mechanical Design
The SkyMapper wide field telescope is currently in production by EOS and is scheduled for first light in Q1 2007. This telescope will produce high quality images over a 3.4 degree diameter flat field for wavebands from 310 nm to 1000 nm. This paper discusses the optical and opto-mechanical design and tolerancing of the SkyMapper Telescope.