More info on LSST and Pan-Starrs scopes in Sept issue. Get ready for
some mag24 sky surveys that happen once every 3 days or so with the LSST
is up around 2016! LSST 8.4 meter mirror is the one that will have an
f/1.18 outer area and f/0.83 inner ring on the primary mirror(s) on one
piece of 8.4 meter glass. Wild.
Pan-STARRS will attempt to use amazing image sensors that are doing
adaptive optics types of corrections on the Pan-Starrs on top of
Haleakala but at the chip pixel level and not with just optics control.
They are shifting the charge in the CCD cells by up few pixels each way
in real-time even as the exposure is happening (so not just post-process
software). Pan-Starrs is trying to work out the kinks for a target of
being doing useful stuff by start of 2009.
Wild stuff and the data is said to be something they will attempt to
make available. (Time will tell).
But hay, as a taxpayer, that is the kind of thing I like to see my money
go into.
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Also on tonight's sky ...
Backyard in sodium light west san jose tonight is not bad at all,
considering light smoke.
I bet the guys at Coe have a very decent time.
mark
--- Next up... CalStar 2008: http://www.sjaa.net/calstar/ I glanced at M31, and it was so bright I just didn't know what to do with it. - Elisabeth Oppenheimer on GSSP 2008 TAC mailing list - join or leave here: http://seds.org/mailman/listinfo/sf-bay-tacReceived on Sat Jul 26 00:46:50 2008
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