MAD On-Sky Results in Star Oriented Mode

The MAD demonstrator performed on-sky observations at VLT telescope for validating Ground-Layer, Laser Tomography and Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics correction. Here we present the results obtained on the sky and in laboratory for Star Oriented mode.

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