Optical Design for a New Off-Axis 1.7 m Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear

Leonid Didkovsky; Jeff Kuhn; Phil Goode

doi:10.1117/12.518671

Optical Design for a New Off-Axis 1.7 m Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear

Leonid Didkovsky, Jeff Kuhn, Phil Goode

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Abstract

An optical design for a modern off-axis 1.6 m clear aperture solar telescope - the NST (New Solar Telescope) is presented. The NST will replace the 65 cm vacuum telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in 2006. A high-order Adaptive optics (AO) system will deliver light to the current and planned complement of BBSO instrumentation. The NST will fully utilize the optical and dynamical range advantages of its unobstructed (off-axis) pupil.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	333-343
Number of pages	11
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	5171
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.518671
State	Published - 2004
Event	Telescopes and Instrumentation for Solar Astrophysics - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Aug 7 2003 → Aug 8 2003

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Adaptive Optics
Off-Axis Telescope
Optical Design

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