Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics Demonstrator (MAD) control

Staff working on 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 ELT concept and the 2nd Generation VLT Instruments. This photograph was obtained in May 2005.

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ESO

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Id:mad
Type:Photographic
Release date:3 December 2009, 23:18
Size:5012 x 3630 px

About the Object

Name:Paranal
Type:Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Facility
Category:Paranal

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