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Preliminary results of the alignment and Hartmann tests of the AZT-22 telescope

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The AZT-22 telescope installed in Turkey (Antalia) was aligned and tested on stars by the Hartmann method. The rms normal deviation of an equivalent optical system is 0.040±0.016 µm. The circle of confusion is 0.40±0.04 arcsec in diameter at a 50% energy level.

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  1. TUBITAK National Observatory, Antalia, Turkey

    Z. Aslan & I. Khamitov

  2. Kazan State University, Kremlevskaya ul. 18, Kazan, 420008, Tatarstan, Russia

    I. F. Bikmaev, R. I. Gumerov & N. A. Sakhibullin

  3. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow, 117810, Russia

    É. A. Vitrichenko, M. N. Pavlinsky, R. A. Sunyaev & A. L. Yaskovich

  4. LOMO Joint-Stock Company, St. Petersburg, Russia

    L. A. Dembo, S. F. Kamus & L. N. Panteleev

  5. Aegean University, Izmir, Turkey

    V. Keskin

  6. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 06531, Turkey

    U. Kiziloglu

  7. Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

    S. O. Selam

  8. Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Astronomicheskaya ul. 33, Tashkent, 700052, Uzbekistan

    I. Khamitov

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Translated from Pis’ma v Astronomicheski\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Zhurnal, Vol. 27, No. 6, 2001, pp. 464–469.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Aslan, Bikmaev, Vitrichenko, Gumerov, Dembo, Kamus, Keskin, Kiziloglu, Pavlinsky, Panteleev, Sakhibullin, Selam, Sunyaev, Khamitov, Yaskovich.

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Aslan, Z., Bikmaev, I.F., Vitrichenko, É.A. et al. Preliminary results of the alignment and Hartmann tests of the AZT-22 telescope. Astron. Lett. 27, 398–403 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1374679

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