Astonishing detail. From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 10:37 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Teaching an old dog new tricks This is remarkable.  Look at these two images of Ganymede.  The one on the left was taken with the Palomar 200" Hale telescope after the installation of adaptive optics in 2011.  The one on the right was taken with the Hubble space telescope, for comparison. http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/776/2/130/downloadHRFigure/figure/apj484... Here is a link to the paper describing the adaptive optics system: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/776/2/130/article?v_showallauthors=yes Seems you CAN teach an old dog new tricks. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".