Diffraction-limited I band imaging with faint reference stars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4839, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1093-1102

  Tubbs, Robert N ^a   Baldwin, John E ^b   Mackay, Craig D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lucky exposures sky coverage diffraction limited visible CCD imaging adaptive optics

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GALAXIES; INFRARED IMAGING;

STARS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0038075572     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.457029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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