Pointing and tracking results of the VST telescope

Pietro Schipani; Carmelo Arcidiacono; Javier Argomedo; Massimo Dall'Ora; Sergio D'Orsi; Jacopo Farinato; Demetrio Magrin; Laurent Marty; Roberto Ragazzoni; Gabriele Umbriaco

doi:10.1117/12.925483

17 September 2012 Pointing and tracking results of the VST telescope

Pietro Schipani, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Javier Argomedo, Massimo Dall'Ora, Sergio D'Orsi, Jacopo Farinato, Demetrio Magrin, Laurent Marty, Roberto Ragazzoni, Gabriele Umbriaco

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Proceedings Volume 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV; 84445R (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925483
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is the latest telescope installed at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in northern Chile. The exceptional quality of this site imposes tight requirements on the telescope performance in terms of pointing modeling and tracking. This paper describes the control strategy and the results obtained during the commissioning of the telescope.

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Pietro Schipani, Carmelo Arcidiacono, Javier Argomedo, Massimo Dall'Ora, Sergio D'Orsi, Jacopo Farinato, Demetrio Magrin, Laurent Marty, Roberto Ragazzoni, and Gabriele Umbriaco "Pointing and tracking results of the VST telescope", Proc. SPIE 8444, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes IV, 84445R (17 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925483

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