Talk:Adaptive optics

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Image sugestion from another article

I think that this is a good example of what does atmosphere to the picture. An animated image of the Moon's surface showing the effects of Earth's atmosphere on the view —Preceding unsigned comment added by Multimotyl (talk • contribs) 22:49, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

History?

Wasn't the sodium guide star method developed by the American government and was classified until it was independently discovered by french astronomers?

The need for a reference

Could someone who understands this please mention the need for a reference point earlier in the article? At the moment there's no discussion of it at all until it's just casually mentioned as if the reader knew about it all along... Evercat 13:21, 5 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Recommended sources

These were added to the article with comment "I believe these are reasonable references on adaptive optics, but I don't know where to put them as inline references. Maybe someone else can do that." But what we need are citations; a list of possible sources that are not actually cited inline doesn't help much. And wikipedia is never a source. Dicklyon (talk) 03:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics

http://ao.osa.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-13-2-291

http://www.eas.caltech.edu/engenious/win03/emeritus.pdf

http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0049-1748/13/6/A13/QEL_13_6_A13.pdf

http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/117/01/OH_Bridges_W.pdf

http://pdf.aiaa.org/GetFileGoogle.cfm?gID=20084&gTable=mtgpaper

http://ao.osa.org/ViewMedia.cfm?id=23938&seq=0

Ferrofluid mirror

Is this for real or just snake oil? If it's for real it should probably be mentioned in the article.
Morphing mirror could clear the skies for astronomers
Rees11 (talk) 11:05, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There's a big "white spot" in the article

viz: This technology is a very desired spyware too (for spy-satellites). You dont believe it? A look into the Patents (and a request to the market of such things!) will teach the doubters. Why the article handles that as an secret?? Is it an encyclopedia here, or a wartime-propaganda-newspaper?
oh boy ... V. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.14.247.173 (talk) 01:22, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I doubt there's any conspiracy to keep this information out of the article – it's probably just that no-one's taken the time to add it. Feel free to contribute as you see fit, being sure to cite a reference. A reliable source that commented on the patents would be preferable to one of the patents themselves. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 09:56, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]