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Suggest adding a section that gives an overview of how Adaptive Optics has improved Astronomical observation in recent years. The article gives a good account of the technique but does not mention what impact it has had. For example, exoplanet imaging was not possible from earth-bound telescopes without AO, and detailed imaging from earth of features on planetary moons, e.g. Titan, has been improved. Tony ( talk) 16:53, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please check the relevance to this article? Tip-Tilt Correction for Astronomical Telescopes using Adaptive Control — Atelierelealbe ( talk) 07:39, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I think that this is a good example of what does atmosphere to the picture.
An animated image of the
Moon's surface showing the effects of Earth's atmosphere on the view —Preceding
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22:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't the sodium guide star method developed by the American government and was classified until it was independently discovered by french astronomers?
Could someone who understands this please mention the need for a reference point earlier in the article? At the moment there's no discussion of it at all until it's just casually mentioned as if the reader knew about it all along... Evercat 13:21, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
These were added to the article with comment "I believe these are reasonable references on adaptive optics, but I don't know where to put them as inline references. Maybe someone else can do that." But what we need are citations; a list of possible sources that are not actually cited inline doesn't help much. And wikipedia is never a source. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-13-2-291
http://www.eas.caltech.edu/engenious/win03/emeritus.pdf
http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0049-1748/13/6/A13/QEL_13_6_A13.pdf
http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/117/01/OH_Bridges_W.pdf
http://pdf.aiaa.org/GetFileGoogle.cfm?gID=20084&gTable=mtgpaper
http://ao.osa.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=23938&seq=0
Freeman Dyson's 1975 paper certainly should be added to the references. Photon noise and atmospheric noise in active optical systems. Optical Society of America, Journal, vol. 65, May 1975, p. 551-558. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975JOSA...65..551D/abstract — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:1202:D9F0:79E4:374B:5749:FD16 ( talk) 01:56, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Is this for real or just snake oil? If it's for real it should probably be mentioned in the article.
Morphing mirror could clear the skies for astronomers
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11:05, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
viz: This technology is a very desired spyware too (for spy-satellites). You dont believe it? A look into the Patents (and a request to the market of such things!) will teach the doubters. Why the article handles that as an secret?? Is it an encyclopedia here, or a wartime-propaganda-newspaper?
oh boy ...
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Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Laser Towards Milky Ways Centre.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 11, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-06-11. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! — howcheng { chat} 22:32, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
I propose that Atmospheric correction be merged into Adaptive optics. I think that the content in the first article can easily be added to the 'Other use' section of this article. 2pem ( talk) 18:24, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
The article states that adaptive optics use deformable mirrors. There are also systems that use moveable lenses (these are adaptive optics, not active optics) and refractive correctuion (i.e. a moveable glass plate). AO is now within teh reach of amateur astronomers. The article needs to be brought up to date by someone with better knowledge than I have of how these lens systems work. [ [1]] [ [2]] Stub Mandrel ( talk) 20:38, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Lasers in Material Processing also use adaptive optics on the fly during operation, not necessarily to account for wave deformations (as laser beams don't have too much of that I believe) but for adjustment of depth for piercing and sometimes beam width in order to switch from piercing to cutting mode. Seems that it would deserve a little more elaboration here. For lasers there are also possibilities to control the actuator to tilt the reflecting mirror piece (or segments) powered piezo-electrically (just found the information, not entirely sure what it means), as well as by water/air pressure. Thoughts? [1] Ivangiesen ( talk) 07:41, 14 February 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivangiesen ( talk • contribs) 07:38, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Could split out Adaptive optics in astronomy so it can be expanded with eg : History section, Cost effectiveness, notable installations, research ... - Rod57 ( talk) 08:36, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
I just published an article on adaptive optics in the RP Photonics Encyclopedia: https://www.rp-photonics.com/adaptive_optics.html As I believe this will be quite helpful to many, and presents far more in-depth information than the Wikipedia article (while still being quite understandable), I propose that someone includes an external link to that.
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Suggest adding a section that gives an overview of how Adaptive Optics has improved Astronomical observation in recent years. The article gives a good account of the technique but does not mention what impact it has had. For example, exoplanet imaging was not possible from earth-bound telescopes without AO, and detailed imaging from earth of features on planetary moons, e.g. Titan, has been improved. Tony ( talk) 16:53, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
Can someone please check the relevance to this article? Tip-Tilt Correction for Astronomical Telescopes using Adaptive Control — Atelierelealbe ( talk) 07:39, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
I think that this is a good example of what does atmosphere to the picture.
An animated image of the
Moon's surface showing the effects of Earth's atmosphere on the view —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Multimotyl (
talk •
contribs)
22:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Wasn't the sodium guide star method developed by the American government and was classified until it was independently discovered by french astronomers?
Could someone who understands this please mention the need for a reference point earlier in the article? At the moment there's no discussion of it at all until it's just casually mentioned as if the reader knew about it all along... Evercat 13:21, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
These were added to the article with comment "I believe these are reasonable references on adaptive optics, but I don't know where to put them as inline references. Maybe someone else can do that." But what we need are citations; a list of possible sources that are not actually cited inline doesn't help much. And wikipedia is never a source. Dicklyon ( talk) 03:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-13-2-291
http://www.eas.caltech.edu/engenious/win03/emeritus.pdf
http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0049-1748/13/6/A13/QEL_13_6_A13.pdf
http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/117/01/OH_Bridges_W.pdf
http://pdf.aiaa.org/GetFileGoogle.cfm?gID=20084&gTable=mtgpaper
http://ao.osa.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=23938&seq=0
Freeman Dyson's 1975 paper certainly should be added to the references. Photon noise and atmospheric noise in active optical systems. Optical Society of America, Journal, vol. 65, May 1975, p. 551-558. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1975JOSA...65..551D/abstract — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:1202:D9F0:79E4:374B:5749:FD16 ( talk) 01:56, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
Is this for real or just snake oil? If it's for real it should probably be mentioned in the article.
Morphing mirror could clear the skies for astronomers
Rees11 (
talk)
11:05, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
viz: This technology is a very desired spyware too (for spy-satellites). You dont believe it? A look into the Patents (and a request to the market of such things!) will teach the doubters. Why the article handles that as an secret?? Is it an encyclopedia here, or a wartime-propaganda-newspaper?
oh boy ...
V. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
91.14.247.173 (
talk)
01:22, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Laser Towards Milky Ways Centre.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on June 11, 2012. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2012-06-11. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! — howcheng { chat} 22:32, 8 June 2012 (UTC)
I propose that Atmospheric correction be merged into Adaptive optics. I think that the content in the first article can easily be added to the 'Other use' section of this article. 2pem ( talk) 18:24, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
The article states that adaptive optics use deformable mirrors. There are also systems that use moveable lenses (these are adaptive optics, not active optics) and refractive correctuion (i.e. a moveable glass plate). AO is now within teh reach of amateur astronomers. The article needs to be brought up to date by someone with better knowledge than I have of how these lens systems work. [ [1]] [ [2]] Stub Mandrel ( talk) 20:38, 26 July 2017 (UTC)
Lasers in Material Processing also use adaptive optics on the fly during operation, not necessarily to account for wave deformations (as laser beams don't have too much of that I believe) but for adjustment of depth for piercing and sometimes beam width in order to switch from piercing to cutting mode. Seems that it would deserve a little more elaboration here. For lasers there are also possibilities to control the actuator to tilt the reflecting mirror piece (or segments) powered piezo-electrically (just found the information, not entirely sure what it means), as well as by water/air pressure. Thoughts? [1] Ivangiesen ( talk) 07:41, 14 February 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivangiesen ( talk • contribs) 07:38, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
Could split out Adaptive optics in astronomy so it can be expanded with eg : History section, Cost effectiveness, notable installations, research ... - Rod57 ( talk) 08:36, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
I just published an article on adaptive optics in the RP Photonics Encyclopedia: https://www.rp-photonics.com/adaptive_optics.html As I believe this will be quite helpful to many, and presents far more in-depth information than the Wikipedia article (while still being quite understandable), I propose that someone includes an external link to that.