Re: Adaptive Optics

From: Brian Tung (brian_at_isi.edu)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:25:53 +0000 (UTC)

Chris L Peterson wrote:
> I hope I didn't say anything to suggest this. What is impossible is doing AO
> when there aren't enough photons to get a good signal in the time interval
> required for correction.

Is there any kind of sampling rule (a la Nyquist) that would give us a
handle on what aperture could do this, given any particular DSO and sky
background?

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