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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Perhaps we can do a test at Clayton.  My seeing is quite good, we can see what sort of results I get over say a loan period of 3 years.  |
Now a reading from "The castle": "tell 'em the're dreamin'
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
This is quite an interesting discussion. The improvement in stellar profiles does require good seeing as I understand it, but is the real improvement over the mount discrepancies? Even a mount of Bisque quality would have minor defects that an AO could improve upon? I have seen results in SN that seem to indicate an AO can produce better results.
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That's why I published the mount RMS tracking data. About a quarter arc-sec in *both* RA and Dec. Well below the seeing, plus you'd expect the RA to dominate in any mount-error effect. That was not observed/supported by the data.