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post Mar 3 2006, 06:56 PM
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post May 16 2006, 01:22 PM
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It amazes me how much amateur observations have increased in clarity.

I can't even imagine what the next 10 years brings!
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post May 16 2006, 01:36 PM
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While it is simply amazing that amateur astronomers nowadays produce better images than professional observatories did a couple of decades ago, I don't believe this trend will continue much longer by improving cameras and increasing telescope apertures. Even now, image quality is most strongly affected by atmospheric seeing and without adaptive optics, you can't squeeze out a much larger resolution, no matter how good equipment you have.
On the other hand, it'll be interesting to follow advances in adaptive optics over the years and how affordable they'll become to amateur guys. Check out Emily's blog on Uranus' equinox, there's a neat Keck montage showing just how AO improved in only 4 years. The next big quantum leap in amateur observing will surely come when (if?) AO becomes affordable. It's still best suited for infrared observations, though.


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- Sunspot   New Red Spot   Mar 3 2006, 06:56 PM
- - RedSky   Uh Oh! Must be all those accumulating Monol...   Mar 3 2006, 10:22 PM
- - Decepticon   RE: New Red Spot   Mar 3 2006, 11:12 PM
- - BruceMoomaw   Yeah -- but in that case, who's down there pai...   Mar 4 2006, 06:09 AM
- - TritonAntares   Didn't mention this so far... Does anyone kn...   Mar 4 2006, 10:29 AM
|- - dilo   Veeery interesting, I wonder if Hubble or Keck AO ...   Mar 4 2006, 11:27 AM
|- - helvick   QUOTE (TritonAntares @ Mar 4 2006, 10:29 ...   Mar 4 2006, 11:44 AM
|- - stevesliva   It's interesting to read the the Great Red Spo...   Mar 4 2006, 03:52 PM
- - Decepticon   I can't wait to see Kecks or Hubbles views.   Mar 5 2006, 05:56 PM
|- - ljk4-1   Pioneer 10 saw a similar smaller red spot during i...   Mar 8 2006, 03:33 PM
- - Decepticon   If I remember right that was in the northern hemis...   Mar 9 2006, 01:53 AM
- - Toma B   Only image of this "new Red Spot" that I...   Mar 9 2006, 06:26 AM
|- - ljk4-1   B)-->QUOTE(Toma B @ Mar 9 2006, 01:26 AM)...   Mar 9 2006, 03:27 PM
- - SigurRosFan   A new animation ... On March 12th, Mike Salway of...   Mar 15 2006, 12:43 PM
- - ljk4-1   Photo in the News: Jupiter Spawns a New Red Spot ...   Mar 22 2006, 02:47 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   There are several great images here: http://jupite...   Mar 22 2006, 03:14 PM
||- - ljk4-1   Quote from Spaceweather.com: MEANWHILE ON JUPITER...   Mar 27 2006, 08:10 PM
||- - Decepticon   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Mar 27 2006, 03:10 P...   Mar 28 2006, 01:26 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (Decepticon @ Mar 28 2006, 08:26 AM...   Mar 28 2006, 02:17 PM
||- - dilo   According to RED SPOT JR. site, "On mid-April...   Apr 26 2006, 09:10 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (dilo @ Apr 26 2006, 05:10 PM) Acco...   Apr 26 2006, 09:16 PM
||- - dilo   Yes, I already saw images/animations and they are ...   Apr 27 2006, 07:53 PM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (dilo @ Apr 27 2006, 03:53 PM) Yes,...   May 4 2006, 05:38 PM
||- - dilo   Finally! Is beautifull!! Also in AP...   May 5 2006, 06:20 AM
||- - dilo   This is a enhanced version of the Hubble picture   May 6 2006, 09:12 AM
||- - dilo   New great images from Hubble and from Earth: http:...   May 15 2006, 09:04 PM
||- - dilo   less than 2 months to collision???   May 16 2006, 06:36 AM
||- - ljk4-1   QUOTE (dilo @ May 16 2006, 02:36 AM) less...   May 16 2006, 01:57 PM
|- - The Messenger   QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Mar 22 2006, 07:47 A...   Mar 27 2006, 09:11 PM
- - edstrick   One red coloring agent proposed years ago.... dunn...   Mar 28 2006, 08:55 AM
- - Decepticon   It amazes me how much amateur observations have in...   May 16 2006, 01:22 PM
|- - ugordan   While it is simply amazing that amateur astronomer...   May 16 2006, 01:36 PM
|- - dilo   QUOTE (Decepticon @ May 16 2006, 01:22 PM...   May 16 2006, 07:48 PM
- - Decepticon   ugordan Thanks for posting that.   May 16 2006, 08:03 PM
|- - dilo   The two spots are even closer now, look to Christo...   May 30 2006, 03:41 PM
- - ljk4-1   NASA Science News for June 5, 2006 The two bigges...   Jun 5 2006, 07:58 PM
|- - dilo   closer and closer: all images were taken from Ch...   Jun 28 2006, 05:17 PM
- - Toma B   I hope that WFPC2 on Hubble is still working fine,...   Jun 28 2006, 05:33 PM
- - remcook   is it just me or is the spot turning the white ban...   Jun 28 2006, 06:30 PM
- - David   The band the LRS is travelling in seems to be enti...   Jun 28 2006, 06:33 PM
- - djellison   The expectation is that they'll just breeze pa...   Jun 28 2006, 06:38 PM
|- - dilo   Doug, are you talking about a possible passdown be...   Jun 28 2006, 07:40 PM
|- - dilo   Now almost touching! Christopher Go comments ...   Jul 4 2006, 05:50 AM
- - remcook   http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0607/21jupiter...   Jul 22 2006, 12:24 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   From the latest issue of the journal Earth, Planet...   Jul 26 2006, 05:03 PM
- - OWW   New images from Keck: http://www.keckobservatory....   Aug 1 2006, 09:38 AM
- - SigurRosFan   New article: - Jupiter's Little Red Spot grow...   Oct 11 2006, 09:04 AM
- - PhilCo126   So why are the storms red? Scientists are still pu...   Feb 15 2007, 08:04 PM
- - ugordan   I'm curious: is the progenitor to Red Jr. the ...   Feb 16 2007, 04:47 PM
- - elakdawalla   I've been trying to track down the origin of t...   Feb 16 2007, 05:25 PM
- - edstrick   Somebody mis-natigated and a Vogon ship fullof RED...   Feb 17 2007, 09:33 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   The constantly changing appearance of Jupiter...   Feb 18 2007, 10:36 PM
- - djellison   John is the BAA's Jupiter Section director - a...   Feb 18 2007, 11:21 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 18 2007, 11:21 PM)...   Feb 22 2007, 04:53 PM
- - nprev   Fascinating idea that this might not be Galileo...   Feb 18 2007, 11:54 PM
- - stevesliva   QUOTE (nprev @ Feb 18 2007, 06:54 PM) I r...   Feb 19 2007, 01:25 AM
- - JRehling   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Feb 18 2007, 05:25 PM...   Feb 22 2007, 05:03 PM


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