Yes, it can! This is one facet of adaptive optics, which astronomical observatories can use to compensate for distortions in astronomical images caused by our atmosphere. Let’s set the stage ...

Adaptive optics relies on wave-front sensors to measure aberrations in light coming into a telescope, camera, or similar system, and then uses deformable mirrors to correct those aberrations.

But this technique, called adaptive optics, requires time, money, and expertise, making it available to relatively few biology labs. Now, researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and ...

It has software libraries in C++, Java, Matlab and Labview. The mirrors are also contained within an embedded adaptive optics system that comes with 32-channel drive electronics and a software ...

Hidden in Chile’s Atacama Desert, the $1.5B Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) nears completion. With a massive 130-ft mirror, ...

These techniques have landed in the field of adaptive optics, and are being used to correct distortions caused by atmospheric turbulence in astronomical images obtained by ground-based telescopes.

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 118, No. 845, July 2006 The Strehl Efficiency of Adaptive Optics... The Strehl Efficiency of Adaptive Optics Systems This is the metadata ...

By combining these technologies AOS developed both conventional wavefront-sensor adaptive optics systems and metric AO systems. The most recent work at AOS has been in demonstrating laser beam shaping ...