[djf]

A ground based mirror almost 20 feet big! I saw some of the images of Saturn... stunning, the planetary bands were plain, the rings were too much on edge to see any of the divisions. A quick shot of a star showed it point like and absolutely fixed, no apparrent motion due to atmospheric distortion at all. Here is a good article

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030211S0039

[RadioAstronomer]

Cool! thanks for the link! :-)