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Old 28-04-2010, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by adman View Post
Reading the media blurb - it says that it will have better resolution than Hubble thanks to its adaptive optics....the fact that you can make adaptive optics for a 42m scope just blows my mind....
I think with adaptive optics they usually distort the secondary not the primary, so it's the 6m they'd be distorting here not the 42m. Still quite a challenge though, I bet.
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