Sentences with phrase «sharp images of the sky»
«Keck «s Adaptive Optics system allows you to get very sharp images of the sky, as you would from space, and allows a very precise position of the supernova,» he said.
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Such sensitivities are only available now with the NuSTAR satellite [launched in June 2012] which is designed to create images of the high energy X-ray sky sharper than ever before,» he adds.
The Sloan survey captures the sky in full color rather than just through red and blue filters, produces images twice as sharp as Palomar's, and detects objects one - tenth the brightness of those detectable by its predecessor.
Astronomers have taken the sharpest image yet of the sky at very long radio wavelengths.
Although observatories are built at sites that typically have clear skies and relatively calm air layers, the only ways to get truly sharp images is go above the atmosphere (think Hubble Space Telescope) or to build highly complicated adaptive optics systems that correct for the atmospheric turbulence (and even most imperfections of the telescope itself).
The iPhone did a better job overall with this tricky image of the Flatiron Building, as the flower in the foreground is sharper and the blue sky and clouds look realistic.