Uranus System Imaging |
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Dec 14 2009, 10:18 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 796 Joined: 27-February 08 From: Heart of Europe Member No.: 4057 |
I finished my first good image of Uranus.
Planet is colorized from three filtered images (orange, green, blue). Slightly brownish color of rings is entirely artificial. -------------------- |
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May 3 2021, 06:43 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 228 Joined: 13-October 09 From: Olympus Mons Member No.: 4972 |
I wonder how well the JWST will be able to resolve these moons.
-------------------- "Thats no moon... IT'S A TRAP!"
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May 3 2021, 11:32 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
The JWST will have about the same resolution as HST. Despite the larger aperture, longer wavelengths limit resolutions. Ground based telescopes are going to blow away the HST, and therefore JWST as well, in terms of resolution. Of course, they will be more limited in terms of observation opportunities, but with Uranus's moons, a total of about a dozen observations for each spread out over a couple of decades will completely begin and end the mapping observations that a given instrument is capable of.
The JWST's aperture will be 6.5 m. EELT's aperture will be 39.3 m. |
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