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| Keywords: Ao movie.gif Slow motion simulation of typical adaptive optics operation at a telescope The left hand side shows what a point source e g small star would look like through a ground-based telescope without adaptive optics correction The right hand side shows what is seen after adaptive optics correction has been applied Note that the adaptive optics corrected image is normally very compact but occasionally it breaks up If long exposure images are taken the adaptive optics correction produces a sharp point at the centre of the image while the uncorrected image is just a large fuzzy blob Note that the pattern changes much more quickly when adaptive optics correction is applied This can make it difficult to use adaptive optics corrected telescopes in an astronomical interferometer or for speckle imaging Rnt20 15 36 9 March 2006 UTC 2006-03-09 own assumed Rnt20 Adaptive optics Slow motion animations Simulation | ||||
