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Palomar pictures sharper than Hubble's
Rakhir
post Sep 3 2007, 07:32 PM
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'Clearest' images taken of space
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6975961.stm

A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures of space ever taken.
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post Sep 4 2007, 01:31 AM
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Will adaptive optics or Lucky enable direct observation of the Jupiter-sized planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani?


According to the hubble site "late 2007" is the best chance to do this. When I woke up this morning, I was shocked to learn that it is already "late 2007"!
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post Sep 4 2007, 02:03 AM
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QUOTE (brellis @ Sep 4 2007, 02:31 AM) *
Will adaptive optics or Lucky enable direct observation of the Jupiter-sized planet orbiting Epsilon Eridani? According to the hubble site "late 2007" is the best chance to do this.

The total separation between planet and star will be 0.3 arcsec, so that should be easy for Lucky and AO-equipped ground-based telescopes in terms of resolving power. Contrast is a different story, however. I'm not sure whether HST can do this, given that ACS/HRC and its handy occulting mask is no longer available - it will be difficult to pick it out of the optical scattering artifacts using WPFC2.

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When I woke up this morning, I was shocked to learn that it is already "late 2007"!


Heh. Happens to me every morning. smile.gif
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- Rakhir   Palomar pictures sharper than Hubble's   Sep 3 2007, 07:32 PM
- - climber   QUOTE (Rakhir @ Sep 3 2007, 09:32 PM) ...   Sep 3 2007, 08:09 PM
- - brellis   that pair of images showing the improvement via ad...   Sep 3 2007, 11:46 PM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (brellis @ Sep 4 2007, 12:46 AM) th...   Sep 4 2007, 12:55 AM
- - ElkGroveDan   While this is amazing, these image pairs are only ...   Sep 4 2007, 12:04 AM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Sep 4 2007, 01:04 AM...   Sep 4 2007, 01:26 AM
|- - akuo   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Sep 4 2007, 12:04 AM...   Sep 4 2007, 08:06 AM
- - brellis   Will adaptive optics or Lucky enable direct observ...   Sep 4 2007, 01:31 AM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (brellis @ Sep 4 2007, 02:31 AM) Wi...   Sep 4 2007, 02:03 AM
- - Dyche Mullins   Slight realignment of the left half of Del Palm...   Sep 4 2007, 05:53 AM
- - nprev   I find it amazing that Palomar can still function ...   Sep 4 2007, 02:43 PM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 4 2007, 03:43 PM) I fi...   Sep 4 2007, 04:27 PM
|- - Bjorn Jonsson   QUOTE (Del Palmer @ Sep 4 2007, 04:27 PM)...   Sep 5 2007, 11:43 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (Del Palmer @ Sep 4 2007, 04:27 PM)...   Sep 6 2007, 02:21 PM
- - nprev   Thanks for the info, Del. A depressing prospect in...   Sep 4 2007, 05:48 PM
- - tty   This really isn't Adaptive Optics, since the t...   Sep 4 2007, 06:30 PM
|- - Jyril   QUOTE (tty @ Sep 4 2007, 09:30 PM) This r...   Sep 10 2007, 02:59 PM
- - Roby72   Hello all ! Damian beat his own best results ...   Dec 3 2007, 12:39 PM
- - djellison   The man is a hard working genius - I was fortuante...   Dec 3 2007, 12:55 PM
- - jasedm   This is very very creditable stuff. The Jupiter re...   Dec 3 2007, 08:32 PM
|- - Sunspot   QUOTE (jasedm @ Dec 3 2007, 08:32 PM) Thi...   Dec 3 2007, 11:18 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (Sunspot @ Dec 3 2007, 11:18 PM) Th...   Dec 4 2007, 02:08 AM
- - Del Palmer   The Lyot Project coronagraph to be installed at Pa...   Dec 4 2007, 03:27 PM
- - tedstryk   Speaking of great ground based images, check out ...   Dec 13 2007, 12:16 AM
- - Toma B   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 13 2007, 03:16 AM) ...   Dec 13 2007, 07:54 AM
- - ugordan   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Dec 13 2007, 01:16 AM) ...   Dec 13 2007, 09:43 AM
- - tedstryk   These aren't amateurs. Pic du Midi has long b...   Dec 13 2007, 11:03 AM

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