Greg The laser itself would cost you $5000+, then you would need a wavefront sensor, several more thousands, and pretty massive computing power, not to mention the deformable mirror and its actuators. Fifty grand is a bargain for all of that. The SBIG AO-7 is a high speed tilt-tip mirror which corrects for the wandering about of a star's image due to turbulance, but it doesn't correct for distortion of the image itself. High speed guiding, like the AO-7 provides is probably more than enough for amateur CCD needs. (unless you have a 40" scope) --- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
--- Dale Hooper <Dale.Hooper@sdl.usu.edu> wrote:
It would certainly be fun to have a budget to try. <g>
Just out of curiosity, Dale, how much would it take for a worthwhile look at it?
Chuck
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