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SEEING AND DIFFERENTIAL IMAGE MOTION MONITOR
Subsections
Atmosphere And Astronomical Observing
Air Mass - Extinction
Laplace's extinction theorem
Atmospheric refraction
Theory Of Astronomical Seeing
In General About Seeing and Turbulent Flows
Kolmogorov Model And the Fried Parameter
Temporal Behaviour of Turbulence
Impact of Turbulence (Seeing) to an Image
Methods to Calculate Astronomical Seeing - The DIMM
DIMM - Differential Image Motion Monitor
ESO-DIMM
Hartmann-DIMM
Air Mass And Wavelength Dependence
Exposure Time Dependence
Developement of a New H-DIMM Unit
Why a new H-DIMM Unit?
Required Characteristics.
The Seeing-GR Project.
Aquisition Software Development.
The Program's Interface
Taking Measurements
The Output Data
Possible Error Messages
Reduction Software Development.
Scintilation Measurments with the H-DIMM
Measurement Technique
Correcting for Zenith-Distance
Estimate Of The Isoplanatic Angle Through the Scintilation Index
Observations And Results On Mt.Holomon
Seeing, Scintilation and Isoplanatic Angle Curves
Confirmation of the No-Corelation of Seeing and Scintilation
Conclusions
Possible Future Work
