NASA NTRS · 19850009576
Image Quality on the KAO
Abstract
Three flights of the Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO) were taken to study the cause of the point spread function (PSF) degradation. The preliminary conclusions are: (1) the KAO point spread function decreases in size with elapsed time at altitude; (2) image motion is occasionally comparable to the size of the image, but is usually a sub-arcsecond effect; and (3) star images show small scale internal structural changes on a 200 microsecond timescale.
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Dunham, E. W., Elliot, J. L., Baron, R. L., Hohlfield, R. G.. 1984-12-01. Image Quality on the KAO. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19850009576
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