COATLI: an all-sky robotic optical imager with 0.3 arcsec image quality

Alan M. Watson; Salvador Cuevas Cardona; Luis C. Alvarez Nuñez; Fernando Ángeles; Rosa L. Becerra-Godínez; Oscar Chapa; Alejandro S. Farah; Jorge Fuentes-Fernández; Liliana Figueroa; Rosalía Langarica Lebre; Fernando Quiróz; Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga; Jaime Ruíz-Diáz-Soto; Carlos Tejada; Silvio J. Tinoco

doi:10.1117/12.2233000

9 August 2016 COATLI: an all-sky robotic optical imager with 0.3 arcsec image quality

Alan M. Watson, Salvador Cuevas Cardona, Luis C. Alvarez Nuñez, Fernando Ángeles, Rosa L. Becerra-Godínez, Oscar Chapa, Alejandro S. Farah, Jorge Fuentes-Fernández, Liliana Figueroa, Rosalía Langarica Lebre, Fernando Quiróz, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Jaime Ruíz-Diáz-Soto, Carlos Tejada, Silvio J. Tinoco

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Proceedings Volume 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI; 99085O (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233000
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Abstract

COATLI will provide 0.3 arcsec FWHM images from 550 to 900 nm over a large fraction of the sky. It consists of a robotic 50-cm telescope with a diffraction-limited fast-guiding imager. Since the telescope is small, fast guiding will provide diffraction-limited image quality over a field of at least 1 arcmin and with coverage of a large fraction of the sky, even in relatively poor seeing. The COATLI telescope will be installed at the at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in Sierra San Pedro Mártir, México, during 2016 and the diffraction-limited imager will follow in 2017.

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Alan M. Watson, Salvador Cuevas Cardona, Luis C. Alvarez Nuñez, Fernando Ángeles, Rosa L. Becerra-Godínez, Oscar Chapa, Alejandro S. Farah, Jorge Fuentes-Fernández, Liliana Figueroa, Rosalía Langarica Lebre, Fernando Quiróz, Carlos G. Román-Zúñiga, Jaime Ruíz-Diáz-Soto, Carlos Tejada, and Silvio J. Tinoco "COATLI: an all-sky robotic optical imager with 0.3 arcsec image quality", Proc. SPIE 9908, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI, 99085O (9 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233000

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