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.

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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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