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Stability

For FOS-1 the image of a spectral line moves by about 0.03 pixels per hour in the dispersion direction as the telescope tracks through zenith, and the worst flexure in a test tracking 5 hours RA is 0.15 pixels per hour. For FOS-2 the image of a spectral line moves by about 0.02 pixels per hour in the dispersion direction as the telescope tracks through zenith. Since the design philosophy of FOS calls for integrations to be broken up into periods of no more than 2000 seconds this corresponds to a shift of less than 0.01 pixels in a typical integration.




Tue Aug 15 16:42:46 BST 1995