Abstract

The AMOS Compensated Imaging System (CIS) was developed during the mid and late 1970’s by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Upon installation on the AMOS 1.6 meter telescope in March of 1982 it became the first compensated imaging system to be used on a large aperture telescope. Today the CIS continues to operate as a primary AMOS sensor system and is used to collect imagery of space objects on a nightly basis. Now that many large aperture astronomical telescopes are being equipped with adaptive optics, it is appropriate that we review the design of and experience with this system and the lessons learned from its operation over a period of more than ten years.

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