E-ELT: Isopistonic and isoplanatic angles at Aklim candidate site

M. Sabil; T. El Halkouj; A. Habib; Z. Benkhaldoun; Y. Elazhari

doi:10.1117/12.856592

6 August 2010 E-ELT: Isopistonic and isoplanatic angles at Aklim candidate site

M. Sabil, T. El Halkouj, A. Habib, Z. Benkhaldoun, Y. Elazhari

Proceedings Volume 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III; 77334S (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856592
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

As part of the conceptual and preliminary design processes of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the ELT site-testing team at Morocco has spent the last two years measuring the atmospheric properties at Aklim site as another 4 candidate mountains in North and South hemisphere, Aklim is the per-selected site for the ELT, is located in Moroccan Anti-Atlas at the geographic coordinates 30°7'39" N, 08°18'39" W. In this paper we present the isoplanatic angle θ₀ and the isopistonic angle θ_p, measurements at Aklim site, statistics of the mentioned parameters are obtained from the whole data recorded from April 2008 to December 2009 using the Multi Aperture Scintillation Sensor (MASS) - Differential Image Motion Monitor (DIMM) system, more representative results and statistics are shown hereafter.

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M. Sabil, T. El Halkouj, A. Habib, Z. Benkhaldoun, and Y. Elazhari "E-ELT: Isopistonic and isoplanatic angles at Aklim candidate site", Proc. SPIE 7733, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes III, 77334S (6 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856592

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