One day, if I ever have the money, I would actually like to purchase an AOX or something of that nature to do a quantitative analysis as to the affects of this kind of "adaptive optics" and scientific data acquisition.
To my knowledge, most smaller professional facilities do not use any kind of tilt/tip adaptive optics. I figure that if it was going to help their optical system they would be using something of that kind. Although I have never actually done any real digging into it, I've never heard of it being used, someone can correct me if I am wrong.
Something I would like to do in the future