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16 August 2000 Masking techniques at the focal plane of the FORS instruments
Harald Schink, Harald E. Nicklas, Reiner Harke, Reinhold Haefner, Hans-Joachim Hess, Wolfgang Hummel, Karl-Heinz Mantel, Wolfgang Meisl, Bernard Muschielok, Karl Tarantik, Walter Seifert
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The FORS instruments are focal reducers and spectrographs which are built in two copies for the unit telescopes UT1 and UT2 of the ESO/VLT by a consortium of University Observatories. An overview of the instrument capabilities is given in a separate paper at this conference.
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Harald Schink, Harald E. Nicklas, Reiner Harke, Reinhold Haefner, Hans-Joachim Hess, Wolfgang Hummel, Karl-Heinz Mantel, Wolfgang Meisl, Bernard Muschielok, Karl Tarantik, and Walter Seifert "Masking techniques at the focal plane of the FORS instruments", Proc. SPIE 4008, Optical and IR Telescope Instrumentation and Detectors, (16 August 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.395470
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