A laser guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order...

natural guide star to use adaptive optics, so various methods to create artificial laser guide stars have been developed, including the sodium laser system...

sodium layer to be useful for creating an artificial laser guide star in the upper atmosphere. The star is used by adaptive optics to compensate for movements...

ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring...

ablated object. Using a laser guide star and adaptive optics, a sufficiently large ground-based laser (1 megajoule pulsed HF laser) can offset the orbits...

secondary mirror. The telescope is equipped with adaptive optics, six laser guide star units, and various large-scale scientific instruments. The observatory's...

Charon. It was discovered in September 2005 by Mike Brown and the Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (LGSAO) team at the W. M. Keck Observatory. It carried...

used for a certain type of guide star laser deployed at US Air Force Research Laboratory facilities SOR and AMOS. The laser light is produced in a sum-frequency...

the use of atmospheric laser back scatter to control adaptive optics—a concept which now goes by the name of laser guide-star. He then designed, managed...

use of a laser beam to generate a reference light source (a laser guide star, LGS) in the atmosphere. There are two kinds of LGSs: Rayleigh guide stars and...

Telescope Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System "First Light for Laser Guide Star Technology Collaboration". European Southern Observatory. Retrieved...

and Latin. Road to Santiago: the Milky Way was traditionally used as a guide by pilgrims traveling to the holy site at Compostela, hence the use of "The...

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strengths is high angular resolution imaging accomplished through laser guide star adaptive optics. These facilities are already making an impact. For...

Trujillo, C. A.; van Dam, M.; et al. (October 2005). "Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Discovery and Characterization of a Satellite to the...

Trujillo, C. A.; van Dam, M.; et al. (October 2005). "Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Discovery and Characterization of a Satellite to the...

(Pluto, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris), using the newly commissioned laser guide star adaptive optics system. Images taken on September 10 revealed a moon...

Stomski, P.; Summers, D.; Wizinowich, P. (2005). "Keck Observatory Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Discovery and Characterization of a Satellite to the...

VLT and VISTA (background) The platform as night sets Beam of the laser guide star facility at VLT's Yepun Unit Time-lapse taken at Paranal, showing the...

lack of funding. Both Keck Observatory telescopes are equipped with laser guide star adaptive optics, which compensate for the blurring from atmospheric...

A laser weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military...

light adaptive optics system and later in 1997, it hosted the UnISIS, laser guide star adaptive optics system. As the use of the telescope for scientific...

world-leading performance in optical and near-infrared astronomy, including laser guide stars, adaptive optics, multi conjugate adaptive optics, and multi-object...

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massive objects. A few observatories have been constructed, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory LIGO. LIGO made its first detection...

adaptive optics to correct atmospheric distortion ARGOS – multiple laser guide star unit capable of supporting ground layer or multi conjugate adaptive...

of lasers include laser printers and laser pointers. Lasers are used in medicine in areas such as bloodless surgery, laser eye surgery, and laser capture...

Gelino et al., when they examined for binarity nine brown dwarfs using Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics system (LGS-AO) on Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea;...

original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 21 January 2010. "First Light for Laser Guide Star Technology Collaboration". European Southern Observatory. Archived...

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