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FRom Space Weather

Modern Methods: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sun


Friedrich Woeger, KIS; Chris Berst and Mark Komsa, NSO/AURA/NSF. Color added.

Figure 1: The image of a sunspot, produced by the Dunn Solar Telescope, shows the influence of adaptive optics on resolution. A NASA image of Earth is added for scale, and both Earth and sunspot are artificially blurred on the left half to simulate normal, uncorrected seeing through Earth's atmosphere.

3 posted on 12/12/2006 8:59:00 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ...... Merry Something PC.)
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To: NormsRevenge

ACK!


8 posted on 12/12/2006 9:25:45 PM PST by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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