Documents Instrumentation Concepts Ground-based Optical Telescopes

Instrumentation Concepts Ground-based Optical Telescopes Keith Taylor (IAG/USP) Aug-Nov, 2008 Aug-Sep, 2008 IAG-USP (Keith Taylor) Adaptive Optics Introduction Astro 890…

Documents Page 1 Adaptive Optics in the VLT and ELT era François Wildi Observatoire de Genève Credit for...

Why is adaptive optics needed? Even the largest ground-based astronomical telescopes have no better resolution than an 20cm telescope Turbulence in earth’s atmosphere makes…

Documents Page 1 Adaptive Optics in the VLT and ELT era basics of AO Neptune François Wildi Observatoire de.....

Goals of these 3 lectures To understand the main concepts behind adaptive optics systems To understand how important AO is for a VLT and how indispensible for an ELT To get…

Documents Adaptive Optics in the VLT and ELT era

Why is adaptive optics needed? Even the largest ground-based astronomical telescopes have no better resolution than an 20cm telescope Turbulence in earth’s atmosphere makes…