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William Herschel Telescope

SLODAR: SLOpe Detection And Ranging

First light (at ING): April 2003.

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.

Time allocations:
Nights scheduled since semester 2007B

Instrument information: https://www.dur.ac.uk/cfai/sitecharacterisation/slodar/

More:
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/newsletter/news7/ins4.html

Research impact:

Publications (2 from ING paper count)



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Last modified: 08 November 2023