Abstract

The operation of the ESO ComeOn adaptive optics system, under its successive improved versions at La Silla on the 3.6 m telescope since 1991, has produced a great number of new scientific results. In addition, it has started a learning process for an efficient use of adaptive optics in diffraction-limited imaging from the ground with large telescopes. Finally, it suggests new, original applications of adaptive optics, some of them being implemented or on the way to be implemented.

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