Laser-based metrology systems versus wavefront sensing techniques: a comparative overview between the Large Binocular Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory for the telescope alignment and collimation tracking
This work presents a comparative overview of the collimation and alignment strategies employed by two leading 8m-class facilities: the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. While both telescopes share a challenging fast f-number of approximately f/1.2 (considering the LBT in its Prime Focus...