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Originally Posted by Shiraz
Thanks for the info Peter. I would be surprised if you had much seeing effect at 2 arcsec sampling - seeing blur will be smaller than the pixels in good conditions. But, if you are getting tighter stars with AO, then it has to be worth having.
Regards ray
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Ray...amateur AO systems clearly have no capacity to correct for anything other than isoplanic errors.....i.e. tip-tilt errors.....but as this is the first order correction of any comprehensive AO system it IS worth doing....as there is no way you can get, in my case about 100kg of mount/telescope/counterweights to move reliably in any direction at 15Hz!
AO really does pay the dividends as I mentioned earlier.