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Ground-based Telescope as Sharp as Hubble

Posted by michael on from the corrective-lenses-required dept.

Midnight Thunder writes: "The BBC has an article describing how the Paranal Observatory has been able to take images that are just as sharp as the Hubble Space Telescope. For a ground based telescope the images are of amazing quality."

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  1. CCD's and Image processing have come along way! by pease1 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Image processing and cheap CCD detectors have REEEEALLLLYYY improved astro-imaging from the ground. In fact, it's restarted a dead line of astronomy: studing images instead of spectra and other forms of data.

    Amateurs are doing amazing stuff. Here's an image of Saturn taken with an amateur 13-inch scope and a camcorder. It's compared side-to-side with a similar HST image. You will be surprised.

    Dozens of amateurs joined in a program to supply images to the 2001 International Marswatch program during this past Martian observing season. The pros use these images to decide when to spend their valuable HST time to look at Mars. Some of the images (and visual drawings) are incredible.