Towards MOAO on the ELT: the CANARY program
Abstract
From the very early concept presented in 2001 at the Venice conference 'Beyond Conventional AO', to the first on-sky MOAO prototype systems, exactly 10 years have elapsed. End of 2010, the pathfinder instrument called Canary obtained the first open-loop, tomographically compensated images on the WHT. What were the challenges, and what was demonstrated ? How long will it take for real astronomical MOAO system to be installed on an ELT, and what will be the future steps ? We present the Canary program, and discuss how these achievement contribute to build the future MOAO systems of the ELT.
- Publication:
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Second International Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes. Online at <A href="http://ao4elt2.lesia.obspm.fr">http://ao4elt2.lesia.obspm.fr</A
- Pub Date:
- September 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011aoel.confE...8G