re space marketing would be wonderfull tfv ns cc lehigh edu theodore f vaida writes in article c tls sg news cso uiuc edu gfk uxa cso uiuc edu george f krumins writes deleted to say that visible light astronomy is already a dying field is pure hokum to use the logic that things are already bad so it doesn t matter if it gets worse is absurd maybe common sense and logic are the dying fields deleted ok so those scientists can get around the atmosphere with fancy computer algorythims but have you looked ad the hubble results the defects of the mirror are partially correctable with software see those jupiter pictures for results but is the effects are completely reversable why is there going to be a shuttle mission to fix it deleted the main effect of the spherical aberration problems with the primary mirror was to drive the computer engineers to develop the image processing software that much faster when they use the same deconvolution software on the images from the fixed hubble be ready for some incredible results there is every reason to believe that the results will exceed the original specs by a fair margin adaptive optics is a combination of hardware and software it works realtime not after the fact as is the case with hubble you might be interested to know this technology has made it to the amateur market in the form of the ao adaptive optics system starting on page of the april sky telescope is a three page review of this new product it lists for the article states the ao adaptive optics system comes in a handy soft plastic case that a three year old could carry around even though this device is really only good for the brightest objects it could cope with image movements of up to millimeter in the telescope s focal plane now just imagine how well this infant technology will do in a few years especially in a dedicated system that has hundreds of thousands of dollars and many man hours invested in its development george krumins pufferfish observatory the universe had its origin gfk uxa cso uiuc edu in two hockeysticks colliding home of the hockeystick memorial telescope
