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Old 16-05-2020, 03:43 AM
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Originally Posted by billdan View Post
My astronomy dream product would be an Atmospheric Seeing Killer.

Not those commercial AO boxes that only correct for mount imperfections, but a wave front sensor (camera) that can do at least 30 frames per sec on an average star with good SNR and a tip/tilt mirror that can keep up.



That is not technically possible with a small amateur telescope.
Even super large telescopes sometimes have to shine a laser to get an artificial star to help the software to control a deformable mirror.
That's because you need a very bright star to be able to control
adaptive optics using a deformable mirror.
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