PALM-3000: visible light AO on the 5.1-meter Telescope

Richard Dekany; Antonin Bouchez; Matthew Britton; Viswa Velur; Mitchell Troy; J. Chris Shelton; Jennifer Roberts

doi:10.1117/12.674496

28 June 2006 PALM-3000: visible light AO on the 5.1-meter Telescope

Richard Dekany, Antonin Bouchez, Matthew Britton, Viswa Velur, Mitchell Troy, J. Chris Shelton, Jennifer Roberts

Proceedings Volume 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II; 62720G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674496
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2006, Orlando, Florida , United States

Abstract

PALM-3000 is proposed to be the first visible-light sodium laser guide star astronomical adaptive optics system. Deployed as a multi-user shared facility on the 5.1 meter Hale Telescope at Palomar Mountain, this state-of-the-art upgrade to the successful Palomar Adaptive Optics System will have the unique capability to open the visible light spectrum to diffraction-limited scientific access from the ground, providing angular imaging resolution as fine as 16 milliarcsec with modest sky coverage fraction.

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Richard Dekany, Antonin Bouchez, Matthew Britton, Viswa Velur, Mitchell Troy, J. Chris Shelton, and Jennifer Roberts "PALM-3000: visible light AO on the 5.1-meter Telescope", Proc. SPIE 6272, Advances in Adaptive Optics II, 62720G (28 June 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.674496

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