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"Our colleagues at KGB have delivered to us partial plans for the American adaptive-optics mirror."
The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988
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She was an expert in optical physics, specifically in adaptive-optics mirrors, a field she'd selected to complement her life-long hobby, astronomy.
The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988
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Orsay, France, July 21, 2010 - Imagine Optic, Europe's leading provider of high-precision wavefront metrology and adaptive-optics solutions, is proud to announce that the company was accredited with ISO 9001: 2008 certification in May by Bureau Veritas Certification.
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Instead of using all the light gathered by the telescope, the team used a reduced aperture of 1.5 m as this allowed the adaptive-optics system to deliver the best possible image.
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Instead of using all the light gathered by the telescope, the team used a reduced aperture of 1.5 m as this allowed the adaptive-optics system to deliver the best possible image.
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I think Hubble was a possible exception (though a few years later Hubble began to be rivaled by adaptive-optics telescopes at a fraction of the cost — one of the few successes of the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars).
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Dr. Kiyoko Nakashima, MD, investigator at the Quinze-Vingts Hospital, states: "The new, fully automated, adaptive-optics system is an enormous plus because, contrary to other systems, the user doesn't need any knowledge of adaptive optics to use it.
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Dr. Kiyoko Nakashima, MD, investigator at the Quinze-Vingts Hospital, states: "The new, fully automated, adaptive-optics system is an enormous plus because, contrary to other systems, the user doesn't need any knowledge of adaptive optics to use it.
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