ACTUAL ROTATION
11.94 RPM1.250 rad/sMOTOR
LIVE SIMULATION / OBSERVATORY 09
Liquid Mirror Observatory.
A rotating surface. A perfect paraboloid. The physics of celestial light, made visible.
MIRROR APERTURE
4.80 m18.10 m²COLLECTION AREA
GEOMETRIC SPOT RMS
—80% radius —RAY TRACE
DRIVE POWER
0 WTracking error 0.0%PI CONTROL
LIVE SENSOR ARRAY
GEOMETRIC PSFFocal Plane Imaging
RAYS VALID640 / 640
CENTROID OFFSET—
FOCUS PLANE Z—
GEOMETRIC R80—
Point-spread function excludes diffraction, atmosphere and detector noise.
DYNAMICS MONITOR
TIME DOMAINSpin Regulation
Rotor Fluid Target