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Adaptive optics corrects rapidly changing atmospheric wavefront errors to improve angular resolution and image concentration. A wavefront sensor estimates those errors and a feedback controller commands a deformable mirror to oppose them, aiming toward the diffraction limit of a telescope rather than the uncorrected astronomical seeing limit.

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