Adaptive-optics corrections available for the whole sky

Nature

Volumn 403, Issue 6765, 2000, Pages 54-56

  Ragazzoni, Roberto ^a   Marchetti, Enrico ^b   Valente, Gianpaolo ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^b FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DIFFRACTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0034610782     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/47425     Document Type: Article

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