Performance of adaptive optics at Lick Observatory

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May 1994

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Proc. SPIE Vol. 2201, p. 1110-1120, Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, Mark A. Ealey; Fritz Merkle; Eds.

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A prototype adaptive optics system has been developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for use at Lick Observatory. This system is based on an ITEK 69-actuator continuous-surface deformable mirror, a Kodak fast-framing intensified CCD camera, and a Mercury VME board containing four Intel i860 processors. The system has been tested using natural reference stars on the 40-inch Nickel telescope at Lick Observatory yielding up to a factor of 10 increase in image peak intensity and a factor of 6 reduction in image full width at half maximum. These results are consistent with theoretical expectations.

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