Optical polishing of the VLT 8.2m primary mirrors - A report

Roland Geyl; Jacques Paseri

doi:10.1364/OFT.1996.OFD.4

Optical Fabrication and Testing
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
paper OFD.4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OFT.1996.OFD.4

Optical polishing of the VLT 8.2m primary mirrors - A report

Roland Geyl and Jacques Paseri

Optical Fabrication and Testing 1996

Boston, Massachusetts United States
1–3 May 1996
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Abstract

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) project is an array of four 8m class telescopes which can operate either independently or in interferometric mode. Figure 1 is a sketch of one 8m telescope in its enclosure. Unit telescopes are of the Ritchey-Chrétien type, with the pupil on the secondary mirror.

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