It Will Be Much, Much Slower The Keck Observatory's two telescopes are nothing short of engineering marvels, each featuring a 32-foot-wide (10-meter) primary mirror comprising 36 precisely aligned ...

Each 10-meter main mirror is but a single part of a magnificent ... [Andrew] bit the bullet and rebuilt the obsolete boards from scratch. The Keck telescopes were built over three decades ago ...

The ability to retrofit the current Keck secondary mirror with a higher-density 3000-4000 actuator ... Northern Hemisphere location atop Maunkea Hawaii. Picture 1: Twin telescopes Keck I and Keck 2 ...

A further grant of US$1.3 million is allowing scientists to design a centre-launch laser telescope that will be installed behind the secondary mirror of the Keck II. Light from the laser is ...

M. Keck Observatory, Automated Planet Finder, and Gemini North telescopes. Of course, adaptive optics requires more than just deformable mirrors. Other key components, such as wavefront sensors, laser ...

Two galaxies were observed at 1.6 μm at an angular resolution as high as 50 mas using the AO system on the Keck II telescope. Radial profiles of both objects are consistent with those of local spiral ...