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William Herschel Telescope

SLODAR

First light: April 2003.

Last commissioning date: 

Designed and built by:Durham University.

Description: SLODAR is a triangulation method, in which the turbulence profile is recovered from observations of bright binary stars using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor.

Some scientific highlights:

More information:

More photos of this instrument: http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/archive/wht/instruments.html



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Last modified: 13 December 2010