Thermal conditioning of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome

Paul Tom Worthington; James R. Fowler; Craig E. Nance; Mark T. Adams

doi:10.1117/12.392502

25 July 2000 Thermal conditioning of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome

Paul Tom Worthington, James R. Fowler, Craig E. Nance, Mark T. Adams

Proceedings Volume 4010, Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.392502
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is an innovative, low cost 9- meter telescope that specializes in queue mode spectroscopic observing. Because of the HET's unique design, careful day- time and night-time thermal conditioning of the interior dome environment is essential to optimizing the telescope's performance on the sky during astronomical research operations. In this contribution, we describe the past and present thermal conditioning techniques that have been developed and employed at HET to optimize the telescope's scientific performance.

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Paul Tom Worthington, James R. Fowler, Craig E. Nance, and Mark T. Adams "Thermal conditioning of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope dome", Proc. SPIE 4010, Observatory Operations to Optimize Scientific Return II, (25 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.392502

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