the optics thatófor clear, sharp wide angle shots underwater.
adaptive optics just in the last year.
But this was the optics gallery, dark on purpose because of the phenomenon.
I mean optics the-- just how things look.
second using adaptive optics on Keck.
the phenomenon of light and optics and transforming an environment into a work of art.
He demonstrated his invention at an optics convention at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York.
the Keck telescopes with adaptive optics on versus adaptive optics off of between 10 and 20, depending on the atmospheric conditions.
And this is all thanks to adaptive optics .
But astronomers until they had adaptive optics weren't really able to study it very well.
And the idea is to use adaptive optics to make the image of the star as small as possible.
And so the way this was done was through fiber optics .
It's sort of like the Caesar salad dressing of optics .
So this the schematic of how an adaptive optics systems works to remove the turbulence in the atmosphere which causes that kind of twinkling
Kea if we don't -- if we're not using adaptive optics the characteristic size of an image is a half an arc second.
This is an image of -- for our adaptive optics system with Keck.
We want and need to be able to use adaptive optics everywhere.
There are people to think that anybody who talks about any artist using optics in any way is defeating the whole idea of art,
But you're inferring from that because we're talking the language of optics .
There were some optics -type thing-- and I don't mean optics the discipline.
And in his treatise Optics published in 1794 he criticized other scientists who were trying to
um used actually a kind of a mechanical equivalent of the Adaptive Optics uh
They want to know, they wanna discuss optics and some of the particular things about - I, I'm much more into the whole experience of it.
Without adaptive optics , this would just be a blur.
stars right at the very center of the galaxy until -- until adaptive optics on the Keck telescope started probing this area at very high resolution, led by Andre's group.
before the Keck telescopes started looking at this area of the sky with adaptive optics .
can create an artificial beacon near any place that we want to do adaptive optics on the sky.
Extremely committed to bringing on new technologies and new instrumentation and adaptive optics systems to allow the Observatory to do more each year and discover more.
But I have a prediction and that's that with the adaptive optics now fully developed, our community really using the telescopes and partnering with us so well,
So one final question, the optics themselves, its design are RC design, I believe.
where they project, they use holographic, sophisticated optics to project it through the windshield, even when you're looking in the direction of the road,
Communication satellites, wavelength multiplexing, fiber optics themselves were not originated there, but fiber optic systems did.
Silicon is actually not very good for optics .
So we cope with this with adaptive optics and Keck was the first large telescope to have an adaptive optic system.
Let me give you a sense of the scientific questions that are really -- been opened by adaptive optics .
And then I'm going to show you what the motions of these stars are like with adaptive optics , this is a cartoon.
But, we haven't used adaptive optics on this yet. And we've modified our adaptive optics system so it will work at the wavelengths of methane now.
I have a question about the adaptive optics mirror that changes so
So the adaptive optics , right now there's some products available for a couple of thousands bucks for amateurs, right?
Adaptive optics elements, right?
Again, you start with play and interactivity, not the lesson about optics and lenses.
It's probably the most similar to the old Exploratorium, where you'll find classic exhibits on light, optics , perception, listening.
We have 20 teams competing from a variety of different backgrounds-- different approaches, from stem cell to genetics to optics .
It seems that there's real attention here to what the quality of people's experience is, at least from the optics .
Normally we use big dome ports for wide angle optics that
Whenever we hear about a new development in science, whether it's physics, optics , chemistry, or even psychology, we figure out ways to use it in our magic, keeping one step ahead
But in a nutshell, at the top side above the street, like at a lamp post level or something, you actually use a system of optics to concentrate sunlight down into a tiny, tiny footprint,
And private philanthropy supports about 56 percent of our new development, our building of new instruments, and what we'll talk about as adaptive optics
Originally what we'd have to do is do adaptive optics near bright stars.
We're continuing to push on adaptive optics .