Developing a portable NRL fast-frame-rate seeing monitor

Eun Oh; James L. Murphy; Jeffrey T. Baker; G. Charmaine Gilbreath; Robert B. Hindsley; David Mozurkewich; Sergio Raffaele Restaino; Susan Leigh Fortenberry

doi:10.1117/12.562195

20 October 2004 Developing a portable NRL fast frame rate seeing monitor

Eun Oh, James L. Murphy, Jeffrey T. Baker, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Robert B. Hindsley, David Mozurkewich, Sergio Raffaele Restaino, Susan Leigh Fortenberry

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Proceedings Volume 5550, Free-Space Laser Communications IV; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.562195
Event: Optical Science and Technology, the SPIE 49th Annual Meeting, 2004, Denver, Colorado, United States

Abstract

We describe the development of a portable NRL seeing monitor which consists of a 12 inch Meade f/10 telescope with a Dalsa Cad6 260x260 camera having 10 micron pixels. This seeing monitor is capable of up to 700 frames per second. We have three different techniques to measure Fried's r0 parameter: full aperture, two-hole mask, and two-hole mask with in-line intensifier. For the observations done at the Anderson Mesa, Arizona site in January-July 2004, we present comparison of Fried's r0 obtained. Calibration, observing techniques, and data analysis techniques are described. Comparison of the three different techniques is discussed.

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Eun Oh, James L. Murphy, Jeffrey T. Baker, G. Charmaine Gilbreath, Robert B. Hindsley, David Mozurkewich, Sergio Raffaele Restaino, and Susan Leigh Fortenberry "Developing a portable NRL fast frame rate seeing monitor", Proc. SPIE 5550, Free-Space Laser Communications IV, (20 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.562195

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