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WINDSCREEN INSTALLED AT THE BOAO 1.8M TELESCOPE DOME

보현산천문대 1.8m 망원경 돔의 방풍막 설치

  • KIM SEUNG-LEE (Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea Astronomy Observatory) ;
  • SEONG HYEON-CHEOL (Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea Astronomy Observatory) ;
  • YUK IN-SOO (Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea Astronomy Observatory) ;
  • NOH JIN-HYUNG (Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, Korea Astronomy Observatory)
  • Published : 1998.12.01
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Abstract

We installed windscreen at the BOAO 1.8m telescope dome, in order to reduce the degradation of image Quality under strong wind larger than 8m/sec. The windscreen was designed on the basis of that installed at the MSSSO 2.3m telescope dome in Australia. We developed control system (remote control and user program) of the windscreen, being able to operate the windscreen at observation room. We tested the performance of the windscreen under strong wind of 6-15m/see. Tracking error of the telescope, especially in altitude-axis, was greatly decreased when the windscreen was used. Standard deviation of the error was estimated to be less than 0.3arcsec, which has little effect on image quality.

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