Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

by D.M. Alloin

For many astronomers, Adaptive Optics is something like a dream coming true. Sinee 1609 and the first observations of celestial bodies performed with the help of an optieal teleseope, astronomers have always fighted to improve the 'resolving power' of their instruments. For a long time, engineers have trimmed the optieal quality of the teleseopes, until they finally reaehed the barrier set by the atmospherie turbulence, a few seconds of are. At that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048143756
• ISBN13: 9789048143757
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"