OWL site survey: first seeing measurement with ADIMM

Zouhair Benkhaldoun; Abdelouahed Abahamid; Youssef El Azhari; El Arbi Siher

doi:10.1117/12.548839

28 September 2004 OWL site survey: first seeing measurement with ADIMM

Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Abdelouahed Abahamid, Youssef El Azhari, El Arbi Siher

Proceedings Volume 5489, Ground-based Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.548839
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2004, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Abstract

The ESO OWL site survey plan includes the analysis of the astronomical quality of the Atlas mountains in Morocco. In this paper we are presenting the first long time measurement of optical turbulence at Oukaimeden site. For this work we built an instrument called ADIMM for an Automated Differencial Image Motion Monitor, and we use it to the measure the optical turbulence at the Oukaimeden Site. We are describing the instrument and reporting the first results obtained after six month of working on this project. The results of night-time seeing measurements carried out during the period from Jun 14 up to October 01 2003 are presented. The median and mean values of the seeing for the entire period of observations are respectively 0.75" and 0.84". This work was organized in the framework of contract Num.69651/ODG/02/9005/GWI between the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Astrophysics and Physics of High Energy Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences, Cadi Ayyad University (LPHEA).

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Zouhair Benkhaldoun, Abdelouahed Abahamid, Youssef El Azhari, and El Arbi Siher "OWL site survey: first seeing measurement with ADIMM", Proc. SPIE 5489, Ground-based Telescopes, (28 September 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.548839

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