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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. Lucky Imaging by dlawson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First post, huh.
    This technique is often used by amateur astrophotographers using newer CCD cameras and even webcams. Astronomy Picture Of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html is a great site to see this stuff. I haven't checked Googles pictures, but I am sure that there would be a number of them there, too.
    The quality of some of these photos is amazing.
    davel

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