Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

User's Manual for the CFHT Adaptive Optics Bonnette: PUEO

PUEO: Probing the Universe with Enhanced Optics

R. Arsenault
Version 1.2
April 1996

Table of Contents

Disclaimer

1 Instrument Description
1.1 Opto-Mechanics
1.2 Science and Sensing Paths
1.3 Instrumentation
1.4 Close Loop Control
1.5 Annex Systems
2 Performance and Limitation
2.1 Mauna Kea Turbulence and Isoplanetism
2.2 Fast Tip-Tilt
2.3 19-mode Full Correction
2.4 Partial Correction
2.5 Reference Source Brightness
3 Observing Procedures and User's Interface
3.1 Adaptive Correction Parameters and Setup
3.2 Reference Source Acquisition
3.3 Focussing, a Burden of the Past
3.4 Plan your calibrations
3.5 Special Functions and Displays
3.5.1 Special Functions
3.5.2 Displays
3.6 Miscellaneous
4 A few Notions about Adaptive Optics
5 Data Reduction
6 Future of Adaptive Optics at CFHT

Disclaimer

This manual has been updated after the first CFHT Adaptive Optics Bonnette engineering run. Much remains to be tested and learned about the AO bonnette, and a few more engineering/commissioning runs are planned for that. However, the basic functionalities and performances of the bonnette will remain unchanged and the user's manual, in its present form, gives a reliable picture of how the instrument can be used and what its performances are.

If the reading of this manual inspires you, please let us know. We would greatly appreciate hearing from you about desirable functionalities that we have overseen or improvements that could make the use of PUEO more user friendly.


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