Gemini Adaptive Optics Home Page

<nav style="padding-bottom:100px;"> <style type="text/css"> #mirrormessage {background-color:#B13434; text-align:center;color:white;margin:0;padding:10px; font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;position:fixed;z-index:9999;width:100%;} #mirrormessage h1 {color:white;} #mirrormessage a, #mirrormessage a:visited {color:#60C6FF;text-decoration:underline;} </style> <div id="mirrormessage"> <h1>Gemini Observatory Web Archive</h1> <p>This page is no longer maintained. Content and links may be outdated. <a href="https://www.gemini.edu">Please visit the Gemini website for current content.</a></p> </div></nav><body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#8B0000">  <table BORDER="0"> <tr> <td VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="180" HEIGHT="500" bgcolor="#FFBB00"><b><i><font size="+2">Adaptive Optics</font></i></b> <br> <i><font size="-1">Overview</font></i> <p align="center"><a href="MCAOWorkshop.html"><img SRC="workshop-logo-1.gif" ALT="[MCAO Workshop]" border="1" hspace="5"></a></p> <hr> <p><b><i><font size="+1">Contents:</font></i></b> <br>   <br> <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"><b>  <a href="AOPrimer.html">Adaptive Optics Primer:</a></b> <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> What is AO? <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="Science_drivers.html">Science Drivers</a> <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="Seeing.html">The Atmosphere</a> <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> Observing with AO <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="AODatareduction.html">Data Reduction Issues</a> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="AOprogram_top.html"><b>AO Program overview:</b></a> <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="../uhaos/uhaosIndex.html" target="_top">Hokupa'a</a> <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="../altair/altairIndex.html" target="_top">Altair</a> <br>       <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="MCAO.html">Multi-Conjugate AO</a> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="instrumentation.html"><b>Instrumentation for AO</b></a> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball.gif" height="6" width="6"> <a href="AOarchive.html"><b>AO Documents Archive</b></a> </p> <hr> <p><img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../ObsProcess/ObsProcIndex.html" target="_top">How to observe with Gemini</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../instrumentIndex.html" target="_top">Instruments</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="AOIndex.html">Adaptive Optics</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../telescope/telIndex.html" target="_top">Telescope and site</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../schedules/schedIndex.html" target="_top">Observing schedule</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../sys-verif/sysverIndex.html" target="_top">System verification</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../data/dataIndex.html" target="_top">Data/archives</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../sciDocuments/docIndex.html" target="_top">Documentation</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../helpdesk/helpdeskIndex.html" target="_top">Search and Help Desk</a></font></i> <br> <img SRC="blue-ball-space.gif" height="6" width="10"><i><font size="-1"><a href="../../helpdesk/sciOpsChanges.html">Recent changes</a></font></i> <br> </p> <hr> </td> <td VALIGN="TOP"><table> <tr> <td><img SRC="bd30_cap.jpg" ALT="[BD30 taken at Gemini by Hokupa'a in June 99]" height="100" width="100" align="LEFT"></td> <td ALIGN="CENTER" WIDTH="100%"><h1><i>Gemini Adaptive Optics Pages</i></h1> </td> </tr> </table> <p>The Gemini Telescope Project has begun an agressive program to implement adaptive optics systems for each of the Gemini telescopes. The goal is to reach near diffraction-limited images at near infrared wavelengths during median seeing conditions with the driving principles being to maximize the observing efficiency and to enable new science at these wavelengths.  <p align="center"><a href="MCAOWorkshop.html"><img SRC="workshop-logo-1.gif" ALT="[MCAO Workshop]" border="1" hspace="5"></a></p> <br> <ul> <li><a href="AOPrimer.html">Adaptive Optics Primer:</a> </li> <li><a href="AOprogram_top.html">The Adaptive Optics Program</a> </li> <li><a href="instrumentation.html">The instrumentation suite for AO</a> </li> <li><a href="AOarchive.html">Archive of Gemini AO related documents and presentations</a> <br> </li> </ul> <p><br> <font color="#FF0000">These pages are best viewed using a browser which supports frames. (This is the no-frames version). Please note that the navigation buttons below will try and return you to the framed home pages.</font> </p> <p align="center"><a href="/sciops/sciOpsContents.html" target="_top"><img alt="[Science Operations home]" src="../../generic-images/sciopshomebtn.gif" border="2" hspace="5" width="120" height="28"></a> <a href="../instrumentIndex.html" target="_top"><img SRC="../insthomebtn.gif" ALT="[Instrument home]" HSPACE="5" BORDER="2" height="28" width="120"></a> </p> <hr align="left" size="3"> <p><i>Last update September 3, 2000; <a href="mailto:frigaut@gemini.edu">Francois Rigaut</a></i></td> </tr> </table> </body>