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 E-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 • X - Paranal |

