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Sharpest Images With "Lucky" Telescope

Posted by kdawson on from the palomar-ascendent dept.

igny writes "Astronomers from the University of Cambridge and Caltech have developed a new camera that gives much more detailed pictures of stars and nebulae than even the Hubble Space Telescope, and does it from the ground. A new technique called 'Lucky imaging' has been used to diminish atmospheric noise in the visible range, creating the most detailed pictures of the sky in history."

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  1. Re:If they can do this from earth... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well sure. All you have to do is bounce your laser off of those gas clouds to find out how to compensate for them. That should only take a couple hundred or a couple of thousand years with a laser that would consume more power than all of the Earth uses. Oh, and you better hope that that gas cloud doesn't change in the transit time.

  2. inverse process also useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I've found the inverse process to work well on pictures of my wife ;)