Deformable secondary mirror
This is the deformable secondary mirror (DSM) one of the key systems of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). In this image it is mounted on a test bench in the ESO Garching integration laboratory at the start of its test phase. To learn more about its construction and testing read issue 151 of the Messenger.
Credit:ESO
About the Image
Id: | arsenault_fig7 |
Type: | Photographic |
Release date: | 25 July 2013, 11:24 |
Size: | 2448 x 3264 px |
About the Object
Name: | Adaptive Optics |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Instrument |
Category: | Survey Telescopes |