The Canopus adaptive optics system

The Canopus adaptive optics system is lowered onto a lifting cart for installation on the Gemini South telescope in preparation for on-sky commissioning of the laser guide star system in January of 2011. Read more here.

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Gemini Observatory/AURA/M. Paredes

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Type:Photographic
Release date:Jan. 20, 2011, 9:45 p.m.
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Size:500 x 333 px

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