[Lvas] Palomar Mountain Observatory

[Phillip Krumpos]

Yes, I was think the same thing.  Thank you for the references.  Oh, will you be at the meeting tomorrow night?  I sure would like to meet you and personally thank you for your guidance.
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  From: Martin Suñer Hilario 
  To: Las Vegas Astronomical Society 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:29 PM
  Subject: Re: [Lvas] Palomar Mountain Observatory


  [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.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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