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Originally Posted by alpal
Originally Posted by alpal
We are living in amazing times - a digital revolution.
I predict that amateurs will get hold of deformable secondary mirrors
for true adaptive optics in under 10 years time.
Just have a surf through this website:
http://www.alpao.com/?utm_source=ALP...m_medium=email
cheers
Allan |
Sadly we may have difficulty in sampling the atmosphere in order to correct for it. ESO and other observatories use sodium lasers to create 'false stars' that are then sampled and corrected for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_optics
I suspect that if 'green' laser pointers are a problem now, high-powered sodium lasers would be considerably more of an issue.
Still I don't doubt things will continue to improve for amateur.
Cheers,
Cam