In a message dated 1/30/2004 4:14:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
rdcrisp@No-Spam writes:
If we could get them to operate at the wavelength of Sodium, and boost the
power to 250Watts or so, we could use them for guidestars: just like the AO
folks at Lick do. Of course you gotta clear each use/target with NORAD, the FAA
and so on. But imagine having your very own guidestar that you can use to
operate real industrial strength adaptive optics. Wow majorly cool! And this stuff
isn't just for imaging: there's no reason in principle that you couldn't do
visual with it.
rdc
No thanks, I prefer the real stars.
Richard