Deformable secondary mirror transport box
This is the transport box for the thin-shell mirror of the second generation Very Large Telescope mirror unit, the deformable secondary mirror (DSM).
The transport box fulfils several functions as well as transport of the shell: the lower (concave) half is used to aid the removal and installation on the shell to the DSM and the convex half of the shell can be used as a “coating body”.
To find out more about the DSM and its construction and installation read issue 151 of the messenger.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
| Id: | arsenault_fig6a |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 30 July 2013, 17:16 |
| Size: | 2560 x 1920 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Very Large Telescope |
| Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
| Category: | Survey Telescopes |
