Telescopes Join the Physics Community View presentations, read technical papers, and participate in discussion forums. Modern day telescopes rely on a segmented mirror architecture to see far into the universe. This architecture requires high-performance computational capability to align the mirrors in submillisecond timing to account for gravity, wind, and vibration. Other telescope mirrors must be shaped through a technique called “adaptive optics” to account for the turbulence in the atmosphere. National Instruments provides hardware and software with control, timing, and synchronization capabilities to solve these challenges.
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The primary mirror of the European Extremely Large Telescope is contolled by the LabVIEW Real-Time Module.
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