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Hybrids...


Optical Analysis


Link to SPIE home page


The Mackinac conference...


Lunar-based 
occulters: not necessarily impossible.


Developing 
Operations Concepts...


Ground tests....


Doing the tango to find 
planets!


Screens....


Can this be used with 
another planned telescope....


One launch....


What will it take to 
operate them...


Where will 
we go to do it...?


How do occulters 
scale...


Occulter+Square 
Aperture+Apodization


Piggyback Occulters...


Matching through 
Apodization...


Evolving Occulters...


The incredibly 
shrinking occulter...


Plan Diagrams of the SPIDER


SPIDER's articulating screen



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