There are two peaks on La Palma. This one, Roque de los Muchachos, is an extinct volcano (at least we hoe so!). It's the other one that is supposedly going to make a splash that will make eastern US a really wet place./Mats
The thing that makes adaptive optics (AO) for a solar telescope trickier than for night-time astronomy is that we don't have a point source. Instead we have to calculate the shape of the corrective mirror from the low-contrast features in the solar photosphere. This is computationally a much harder problem, so we basically had to wait for processing speed to get better and cheaper before we could do it./Mats
When we first took our adaptive optics (AO) system online in 1999 with our old 50 cm telescope (now replaced with the new 1-meter telescope) it was actually the second really working AO system on a solar telescope. The first one, beating us with a couple of months) was installed at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico./Mats
Sorry about that. We did not expect people to link directly to the download page, that we set up primarly for the media. There are jpegs available from our home page.
Just goes to show that our expertise is in other areas than web publishing... /Mats
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There are two peaks on La Palma. This one, Roque de los Muchachos, is an extinct volcano (at least we hoe so!). It's the other one that is supposedly going to make a splash that will make eastern US a really wet place. /Mats
The thing that makes adaptive optics (AO) for a solar telescope trickier than for night-time astronomy is that we don't have a point source. Instead we have to calculate the shape of the corrective mirror from the low-contrast features in the solar photosphere. This is computationally a much harder problem, so we basically had to wait for processing speed to get better and cheaper before we could do it. /Mats
When we first took our adaptive optics (AO) system online in 1999 with our old 50 cm telescope (now replaced with the new 1-meter telescope) it was actually the second really working AO system on a solar telescope. The first one, beating us with a couple of months) was installed at Sacramento Peak in New Mexico. /Mats
Sorry about that. We did not expect people to link directly to the download page, that we set up primarly for the media. There are jpegs available from our home page.
/Mats
Just goes to show that our expertise is in other areas than web publishing...