The
Daylight Star Tracker Project
- Truck mounted in USAF Humvee
- Acquires and tracks stars during daylight
- Measures atmospheric turbulence
- Thermally stabilized invar tube truss
- Internal laser source and theodolite for Polar alignment
- Computer controlled
Note: Details of this mounting design
and operation appear in "daytime polar alignment of
telescope mountings using GPS and Internal reference
optics," R. Mellon, D. Scheld, &R. Stencel, AAS
Meeting #193, Session 11.04
Daylight star tracker customers
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- ABL Program
- USAF/Kirkland AFB
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your telescope system applications and needs.
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