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MOAO first on-sky demonstration with CANARY

This is the first refereed publication from the CANARY Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) on-sky demonstrator on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope. Its function is to prototype novel forms of AO for the 39m European Extremely Large Telescope. Myers the overall Principal Investigator for the CANARY collaboration, which comprises Durham, Obs de Paris LESIA, UKATC, ONERA and LAM. The publication agreement is that LESIA lead on Natural Guide Star papers (such as this) and Durham lead on forthcoming Laser Guide Star (LGS) papers (multi LGS operations commence May 2013)i . As PI Myers contributed to all aspects of the instrument and this paper. Myers estimates his contribution as 20% overall.