Preliminary design of a NIR prime focus corrector for the Galileo Telescope

Claudio Pernechele; Fabio Bortoletto; Paolo Conconi; Daniele Gardiol; Emilio Molinari; Filippo Maria Zerbi

doi:10.1117/12.395410

16 August 2000 Preliminary design of a NIR prime focus corrector for the Galileo Telescope

Claudio Pernechele, Fabio Bortoletto, Paolo Conconi, Daniele Gardiol, Emilio Molinari, Filippo Maria Zerbi

Proceedings Volume 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395410
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2000, Munich, Germany

Abstract

In this paper a preliminary design for a prime focus corrector to be mounted at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) is presented. The telescope is located on La Palma and has a primary mirror of 3.5 m with a hyperbolic sag. Two optical designs have been considered in order to exploit detectors with 1k by 1k and 2k by 2k pixels. Each design makes use of four lenses, tow of which are aspherical. The first lens diameters are respectively, of 140 mm and 320 mm for the two kinds of detectors. For both designs the telescope pupil is deliberately not re-imaged, and therefore it will not be possible to insert a cold stop. For such a reason particular care has been dedicated to the telescope thermal background study, in order to optimize the baffling system. The optics is able to correct fields of 11 feet by 11 feet and of 60 feet by 60 feet, depending on the design. It should be considered that the particular geometry of the focal plane array mosaic does not permit a full exploitation of the entire field, being based on a combination of four detectors. The selected chips are HgCdTe manufactured by Rockwell, i.e. Hawaii I in the 1k by 1k case and Hawaii I in the 1k by 1k case and Hawaii II in the 2k by 2k case.

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Claudio Pernechele, Fabio Bortoletto, Paolo Conconi, Daniele Gardiol, Emilio Molinari, and Filippo Maria Zerbi "Preliminary design of a NIR prime focus corrector for the Galileo Telescope", Proc. SPIE 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors, (16 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395410

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