NASA NTRS · 19910060645
The Astrometric Telescope Facility
Abstract
The evolution of the Astrometric Telescope Facility (ATF) proposed for use on NASA's Space Station is traced and its design characteristics are presented. With a focal plane scale of 12.7 arcsec/mm, the strawman design has a field size of 10 sq arcmin and a limiting visual magnitude fainter than 16. Output from an observation includes the X and Y coordinates of each star and its relative brightness.
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Black, David, Dyer, John, Nishioka, Kenji, Scargle, Jeffrey, Sobeck, Charlie. 1991-03-01. The Astrometric Telescope Facility. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910060645
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