First On-Sky High Contrast Imaging with an Apodizing Phase Plate (2007)
Kenworthy, Matthew A., Codona, Johanan L., Hinz, Philip M., Angel, J. Roger P., Heinze, Ari, Sivanandam, Suresh
We present the first astronomical observations obtained with an Apodizing Phase Plate (APP). The plate is designed to suppress the stellar diffraction pattern by 5 magnitudes from 2-9 lambda/D over a...