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Plans for utilizing the Keck Outrigger Telescopes at NPOI

Author(s): Michael DiVittorio; Donald J. Hutter; Michael Kelley

Published: 14 July 2008; 8 pages; 165 papers;
DOI: 10.1117/12.787635

Paper Abstract

Four 1.8 m outrigger telescopes were procured by NASA for use as part of the Keck Observatory Interferometer. Due to changes in NASA planning they will not be installed on Mauna Kea. The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI), a joint project of The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO), The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and Lowell Observatory, located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, would like to upgrade the current siderostats on the project to larger apertures. The preliminary plans for integrating the Keck outrigger telescopes (OT) into NPOI are presented.
This paper was published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7013
Optical and Infrared Interferometry, Markus Schöller; William C. Danchi; Françoise Delplancke, Editors, 70132U
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