MAD
A detailed view of the the Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD). 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.
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ESO
About the Image
| Id: | mad_detail-05-05 |
| Type: | Photographic |
| Release date: | 3 December 2009, 23:19 |
| Size: | 4873 x 3754 px |
About the Object
| Name: | MAD |
| Type: | • Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument • X - Paranal |
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