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An Image Drift Compensation System has been designed for a solar pointed space borne telescope and has performed successfully on two sounding rocket flights, yielding new scientific results. The system employs limb-sensing photodiodes at the telescope focal plane and provides drift compensation to better than 0.1 arc sec. A variation of the system will be used on the Shuttle/Spacelab 2 flight of the High Resolution Telescope and Spectrograph (HRTS) Instrument.
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Bartoe, JD.F. An image drift compensation system for a solar pointed space telescope. Astrophys Space Sci 84, 115–132 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00713630
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00713630