Gran Telescopio Canarias: current status of its optical design and optomechanical support system

Lotti Jochum; Javier Castro; Nicholas Devaney

doi:10.1117/12.319300

25 August 1998 Gran Telescopio Canarias: current status of its optical design and optomechanical support system

Lotti Jochum, Javier Castro, Nicholas Devaney

Proceedings Volume 3352, Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.319300
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 1998, Kona, HI, United States

Abstract

The conceptual design of the GTC optical system was completed in summer of 1997. It will be a Richey Cretien type telescope with a flat tertiary mirror to feed Nasmyth and folded Cassegrain focal stations. The telescope will have a segmented primary mirror and an entrance pupil area equivalent to a circular aperture of 10 m diameter. The details of its optical- and opto-mechanical design have been chosen to meet the scientific requirements such as excellent image quality in a broad wavelength range (0.3 microns < (lambda) < 15 microns) and maximum operational efficiency. To achieve the required specifications, all optical elements, in particular the primary mirror segments need to be equipped with a high performance opto-mechanical support system. In this paper we present the results of the optical- and opto-mechanical design of the GTC.

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Lotti Jochum, Javier Castro, and Nicholas Devaney "Gran Telescopio Canarias: current status of its optical design and optomechanical support system", Proc. SPIE 3352, Advanced Technology Optical/IR Telescopes VI, (25 August 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.319300

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