THE JOSE ATMOSPHERIC SEEING MONITOR AT THE WILLIAM-HERSCHEL-TELESCOPE

Authors
STJACQUES D COX CC BALDWIN JE MACKAY CD WALDRAM EM WILSON RW
Citation
D. Stjacques et al., THE JOSE ATMOSPHERIC SEEING MONITOR AT THE WILLIAM-HERSCHEL-TELESCOPE, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 290(1), 1997, pp. 66-74
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society → ACNP
ISSN journal
00358711
Volume
290
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
66 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-8711(1997)290:1<66:TJASMA>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
We have installed a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor at the William Her schel Telescope. The sensor has 8x8 subapertures and operates at frame rates up to 865 Hz. It is used to monitor those aspects of the seeing relevant to the design and optimization of the future WHT adaptive op tics system. Here we describe its implementation and present some samp le results.