Tag Archives: laser guide star

Background Material

We will share in class photographs of various laser guide star systems in action along with our silly poems.

Technical Sources

“Adaptive Optics Tutorial at CTIO” Andrei Tokovinin. Web. 17 Apr. 2011.  http://www.ctio.noao.edu/~atokovin/tutorial/intro.html

Chromey, Frederick R. “Adaptive Optics.” To Measure the Sky: an Introduction to Observational Astronomy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. Print.

Visual Sources

“Photo Gallery.” W. M. Keck Observatory. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. http://www.keckobservatory.org/gallery

“ESO-Images.” European Southern Observatory. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. http://www.eso.org/public/images/