MAD deformable mirror
Deformable mirror of MAD (Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator). It is a prototype MCAO system which aims to demonstrate in the laboratory and on sky the feasibility of different MCAO reconstruction techniques in the framework of the ELT concept and the 2nd Generation VLT Instruments. This photograph was obtained in May 2005.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | deformable_mirror |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:20 |
Size: | 4949 x 3571 px |
About the Object
Name: | MAD |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
Category: | Paranal |
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