First test of the DRAGON Equipment

 

V. V. Voitsekhovich, L. J. Sánchez, V. G. Orlov, F. Garfias, and R. Benítez

 

Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-264, 04510, México D. F., México (leonardo@astroscu.unam.mx, orlov@astroscu.unam.mx, voisteko@astroscu.unam.mx).

 

Received, 2004 December 2
Accepted 2005 April 4

 

RESUMEN

El equipo DRAGON constituye un nuevo instrumento astronómico diseñado para llevar a cabo diversas investigaciones relacionadas con óptica adaptativa, óptica activa, astronomía observacional e instrumentación astronómica. En este artículo presentamos los resultados de las primeras pruebas de este instrumento llevadas a cabo en el OAN-Tonantzintla (México).

 

ABSTRACT

DRAGON equipment is a new astronomical instrument designed to carry out many types of experimental investigations related to adaptive optics, active optics, observational astronomy and astronomical instrumentation. In this paper we present the results of the first instrument testing at the OAN-Tonantzintla Mexican Observatory.

Key Words: Atmospheric effects — Instrumentation: Adaptive optics — Techniques: High angular resolution — Telescopes.

 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This work has been supported by CONACyT (Mexico) grant number 34517-E and by the TIM project (IA-UNAM). We are grateful to the OAN-Tonantzintla staff for their support in observations. We acknowledge an anonymous referee for a valuable suggestion on the possibility of single-image wave-front curvature sensing studies with the DRAGON equipment.

 

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