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Acquisition System

The IMB acquisition system contains the Tip-Tilt sensor mounted on an X-Y stage at the bottom of the IMB. This system views the telescope field in optical light through the dichroic reflexer, and allows offset guiding and selection of bright tip-tilt reference stars. The optical transmission function of the dichroic mirror is plotted in Figure 59 in Appendix L. The travel of the X-Y stage is tex2html_wrap_inline6713 mm in each direction in the f/18 (5''/mm) telescope beam. A focussing unit mounted on the X-Y stage directly in front of the Tip-Tilt sensor changes the image scale, provides a pupil mask that acts as an optical sky baffle, and allows for focussing of the optical image independent of the infrared image.



Kabal
Thu Jun 5 16:44:21 EST 1997