Microgate's VLT-DSM project is proceeding with its assembly and integration phase. By the UT4 Telescope of VLT Observatory in Paranal (Chile) it is started the preparations for the new Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF). This project will convert UT4 into a fully adaptive telescope. The AOF will correct for the blurring effects of the Earth’s atmosphere and will allow much sharper images to be achieved with the HAWK-I and MUSE instruments.

For more info:

• Booklet on the Adaptive Optics Facility (AOF) at ESO
• The Adaptive Optics Department at ESO
• Delivery of the thin-shell mirror

ESO has dedicated his last ESOCast to the Adaptive Optics technology (in this case referred to primary mirror).