[Lvas] Palomar Mountain Observatory

[Martin Suñer Hilario]

[The camera takes 20 or more shots per second.  A computer selects the best
images and combines them into a single, clearer view.]

Phil, that Cambridge "Lucky Camera" looks a little bit like another camera
we know lol.

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/IMGP0207-sm.jpg<http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/%7Eoptics/Lucky_Web_Site/IMGP0207-sm.jpg>

http://www.khanscope.com/images/products/1320-icon.jpg


Here is a link to Nicholas Law's postdoc about adaptive optics (ao) and
speckle imaging at Cambridge/Caltech/Palomar. I hope you enjoy it as well.

POSTDOC:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/nlaw_lucky_thesis.pdf
HIS WEBPAGE: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~nlaw/

martin

On Jan 2, 2008 8:47 PM, Phillip Krumpos < PhilJ1945 at cox.net> wrote:

>  In the recent special issue of "Astronomy", there was a short article
> about Palomar's new optics that produces visible-light images twice as sharp
> as those of the Hubble Space Telescope.  They have added a system that
> measures atmospheric distortion along the telescope's line of sight and
> physically deforms a mirror to counteract them.  They have coupled this
> system up with a new camera developed at the University of Cambridge in
> England.  The camera takes 20 or more shots per second.  A computer selects
> the best images and combines them into a single, clearer view.
>
> Wow, it is amazing what technology can do.
>
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