A Global Calibration Technique in Use at the ETS.

Abstract

This report describes the installation and results of a global calibration program introduced for both telescopes at the Lincoln Laboratory Experimental Test Site. The uncorrected positional pointing errors, due primarily to tube flexure, sag and astronomical refraction, were found to be as high as ten arc minutes at low (twenty degrees) elevation angles. The calibration is performed by a software program which contains look-up tables, for each telescope, that represent ten-degree increments of azimuth and elevation. Residual errors are now less than one arc minute except for a narrow zone across the northern sky. This is a region where there was a high gradient in the uncorrected errors and the residuals here, after correction, are a maximum of three arc minutes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 08, 1982
Accession Number
ADA123252

Entities

People

  • Arthur A. Mathiasen
  • Joseph H. Dial
  • Richard C. Ramsey
  • Robert L. Irelan

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Boresights
  • Calibration
  • Camera Tubes
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Elevation
  • Errors
  • Generators
  • Low Elevation
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Refraction
  • Residuals
  • Telescopes

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Mechanical Engineering/Mechanics of Materials.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.
  • Spectroscopy.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects