Mr. Nicholas T. Mollison Profile

Nicholas T. Mollison

at Zebra Imaging Inc

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Publications (9)

Proceedings Article | 27 September 2012 Paper

Current status of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade

Gary Hill, John Booth, Mark Cornell, John Good, Karl Gebhardt, Herman Kriel, Hanshin Lee, Ron Leck, Walter Moreira, Phillip MacQueen, Dave Perry, Marc Rafal, Tom Rafferty, Chuck Ramiller, Richard Savage, Charles Taylor, Brian Vattiat, Lawrence Ramsey, Joseph Beno, Timothy Beets, Jorge Esguerra, Marco Häuser, Richard Hayes, James Heisler, Ian Soukup, Joseph Zierer, Michael Worthington, Nicholas Mollison, Douglas Wardell, Gregory Wedeking

Proceedings Volume 8444, 84440K (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925435

KEYWORDS: Mirrors, Telescopes, Spectrographs, Wavefront sensors, Camera shutters, Metrology, Control systems, Optical fibers, Actuators, Coating

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2010 Paper

Integration of VIRUS spectrographs for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment

J. Heisler, N. Mollison, I. Soukup, R. Hayes, G. Hill, J. Good, R. Savage, B. Vattiat

Proceedings Volume 7733, 773347 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857466

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Spectrographs, Collimators, Safety, Mirrors, Optical instrument design, Observatories, Space telescopes, Cameras, Fluctuations and noise

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2010 Paper

Design and development of a long-travel positioning actuator and tandem constant force actuator safety system for the Hobby Eberly Telescope wide-field upgrade

Nicholas Mollison, Jason Mock, Ian Soukup, Timothy Beets, John Good, Joseph Beno, Herman Kriel, Sarah Hinze, Douglas Wardell, James Heisler

Proceedings Volume 7733, 773344 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857249

KEYWORDS: Bridges, Telescopes, Safety, Control systems, Actuators, Optical instrument design, Failure analysis, Servomechanisms, Spherical lenses, Mechanical engineering

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Proceedings Article | 7 August 2010 Paper

Current status of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade

Richard Savage, John Booth, Mark Cornell, John Good, Gary Hill, Hanshin Lee, Phillip MacQueen, Marc Rafal, Brian Vattiat, Karl Gebhardt, Joseph Beno, Joseph Zierer, Dave Perry, Tom Rafferty, Chuck Ramiller, Charles Taylor, Timothy Beets, Richard Hayes, James Heisler, Sarah Hinze, Ian Soukup, John Jackson, Jason Mock, Michael Worthington, Nicholas Mollison, Omar Molina, Brian South, Douglas Wardell, Gregory Wedeking

Proceedings Volume 7733, 773343 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857203

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Mirrors, Spectrographs, Computer aided design, Observatories, Actuators, Prototyping, Control systems, Metrology, Space telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 6 August 2010 Paper

Design and analysis of the tracker bridge for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope wide field upgrade

Michael Worthington, Nicholas Mollison, Ian Soukup, Joseph Zierer, John Good, Steven Nichols

Proceedings Volume 7733, 773341 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857090

KEYWORDS: Bridges, Telescopes, Computer aided design, Mirrors, Finite element methods, Optical instrument design, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Observatories, Structural design

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Proceedings Article | 4 August 2010 Paper

Collaborative engineering and design management for the Hobby-Eberly Telescope tracker upgrade

Nicholas Mollison, Richard Hayes, John Good, John Booth, Richard Savage, John Jackson, Marc Rafal, Joseph Beno

Proceedings Volume 7738, 773823 (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857360

KEYWORDS: Computer aided design, Interfaces, Electromechanical design, Telescopes, Control systems, Optical instrument design, Telecommunications, Failure analysis, Data modeling, Computer architecture

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Proceedings Article | 20 July 2010 Paper

Design of the fiber optic support system and fiber bundle accelerated life test for VIRUS

Ian Soukup, Joseph Beno, Richard Hayes, James Heisler, Jason Mock, Nicholas Mollison, John Good, Gary Hill, Brian Vattiat, Jeremy Murphy, Seth Anderson, Svend Bauer, Andreas Kelz, Martin Roth, Eric Fahrenthold

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77354W (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856968

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Actuators, Accelerated life testing, Space telescopes, Optical fibers, Fiber optics, Optical instrument design, Structured optical fibers, Optical benches, Motion models

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Proceedings Article | 15 July 2010 Paper

VIRUS: a massively replicated 33k fiber integral field spectrograph for the upgraded Hobby-Eberly Telescope

Gary Hill, Hanshin Lee, Brian Vattiat, Joshua Adams, J. Marshall, Niv Drory, D. DePoy, Guillermo Blanc, Ralf Bender, John Booth, Taylor Chonis, Mark Cornell, Karl Gebhardt, John Good, Frank Grupp, Roger Haynes, Andreas Kelz, Phillip MacQueen, Nick Mollison, J. Murphy, M. Rafal, W. Rambold, M. Roth, R. Savage, M. Smith

Proceedings Volume 7735, 77350L (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.857808

KEYWORDS: Spectrographs, Sensors, Telescopes, Cameras, Collimators, Mirrors, Prototyping, Charge-coupled devices, Cryogenics, Galactic astronomy

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Proceedings Article | 9 July 2008 Paper

Current status of the HETDEX fiber optic support system

John Good, Gary Hill, Nicholas Mollison, Brian Vattiat, Jeremy Murphy, Andreas Klez, Martin Roth, Phillip MacQueen, Marc Rafal, Richard Savage, Michael Smith, Amanda Bayless

Proceedings Volume 7014, 70147L (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.790256

KEYWORDS: Fiber optics, Head, Telescopes, Spectroscopy, Spectrographs, Structured optical fibers, Mirrors, Cameras, Optical fibers, Bridges

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