Abstract
Prior to the use of adaptive optics, many sources of line-of-sight jitter were masked by atmospheric effects. That is, we cannot observe small jitter in the optical data while wave-front distortions dominate the error in our images. However, we have seen that seemingly negligible error sources become significant as we conquer the atmospheric problems.
© 1996 Optical Society of America
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