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Paperback Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy Book

ISBN: 9048154928

ISBN13: 9789048154920

Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics for Astronomy

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Adaptive optics allows the theoretical limit of angular resolution to be achieved from a large telescope, despite the presence of turbulence. Thus an eight meter class telescope, such as one of the four in the Very Large Telescope operated by ESO in Chile, will in future be routinely capable of an angular resolution of almost 0.01 arcsec, compared tot he present resolution of about 0.5 arcsec for conventional imaging in good condition. All the world's...

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