Re: ATM Adaptive Optics Glasses

[Mike Selfridge <scifiguy@tstonramp.com>]

Hi Bob,

In the radio show segment to which I referred, Dr. Edel explains that this 
is not a binocular, and does not magnify.  It uses a low power laser 
bounced off the person's retina, and a deformable mirror membrane, to 
eliminate atmospheric effects.  It sounded like the way many large 
telescopes use a laser and adaptive optics to eliminate seeing problems, 
except this was a pair of eyeglasses.

--Mike Selfridge

At 10:19 AM 12/1/00 -0800, you wrote:

>Binocular glasses are probably what you are talking about with the better
>than 20/20 glasses.
>As to "Adaptive Optics" binocs, all that you have to do is to gyro stabilize
>the binocs and you get a lot better view of the FOV and you have to remember
>that this stabilization can be either by a mirror flopping about inside or
>by brute force of the gyro in keeping the motion of the image down.  This
>could be a passive form of adaptive optics vs. the active form of adaptive
>optics that we are more familiar with in the production of a "reference
>star" in the upper atmosphere which gets tracked by the telescope.
>Bob May
>My new web space address is http://webu.wigloo.com/bobmay/ or
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>and my new email address is bobmay@nethere.com
>Bob May