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Science Requirements

The general requirements on image quality and image stability are that the optical system not degrade the median seeing at Las Companas (0.6 arc-sec FWHM) by more than 10%. The general image stability requirement is that gravity and thermally induced flexures be limited to 0.1 pixels per hour.



Bruce Bigelow
1998-05-21