  The future generation of telescopes will be equipped with multi-conjugate
adaptive optics (MCAO) systems in order to obtain high angular resolution over
large fields of view. MCAO comes in two flavors: star- and layer-oriented.
Existing solar MCAO systems rely exclusively on the star-oriented approach.
Earlier we have suggested a method to implement the layer-oriented approach,
and in view of recent concerns we now explain the proposed scheme in further
detail. We note that in any layer-oriented system one sensor is conjugated to
the pupil and the others are conjugated to higher altitudes. For the latter not
all the sensing surface is illuminated by the entire field-of-view. The
successful implementation of nighttime layer-oriented systems shows that the
field reduction is no crucial limitation. In the solar approach the
field-reduction is directly noticeable because it causes vignetting of the
Shack-Hartmann sub-aperture images. It can be accounted for by a suitable
adjustment of the algorithms to calculate the local wave-front slopes. We
dispel a further concern related to the optical layout of a layer-oriented
solar system.
