tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post3641548986919423380..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: EliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-63692368198125111192009-07-04T17:14:19.945-04:002009-07-04T17:14:19.945-04:00Constellation as it is will not live long.
If you...Constellation as it is will not live long.<br /><br />If you're really interested, follow nasaspaceflight.com - it's the only media outlet with sources behind the iron curtain of NASA.Flavius Colliumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-38673495555227782582009-07-03T14:25:16.139-04:002009-07-03T14:25:16.139-04:00It's really an interesting question as we use ...It's really an interesting question as we use all sorts of visualization tools to sense at the smallest and largest dimensions, in all but the literal, we really are seeing beyond the visible. OTOH if you want a bar room brawl get a bunch of Hell's Chemists together and discuss whether spectroscopy applies to anything but the visible.EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-27601093167281160172009-07-03T05:20:32.797-04:002009-07-03T05:20:32.797-04:00Webb will not be a visible observatory.
Oops.<i>Webb will not be a visible observatory. </i><br /><br />Oops.bluegruenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-62559706938306147742009-07-01T20:22:06.326-04:002009-07-01T20:22:06.326-04:00Webb will not be a visible observatory.
http://...Webb will not be a visible observatory. <br /><br />http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/EliRabetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-40381644569189965412009-07-01T15:29:20.226-04:002009-07-01T15:29:20.226-04:00As much as a like the Hubble Space Telescope, or a...As much as a like the Hubble Space Telescope, or any telescope for that matter, I'm swayed by the potential of adaptive optics (AO) on much larger and easier to maintain ground-based telescopes.<br /><br />Here's a link comparing the image resolution of the Palomar 200-inch with AO to the Hubble:<br /><br /> <a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/AO/luckycam/luckyhst.jpg" rel="nofollow">Palomar vs Hubble</a><br /><br />Though local light pollution wipes out the fainter stars in the Palomar photo, the remaining stars are better resolved.<br /><br />The full page is here:<br /><a href="http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/AO/luckycam.html" rel="nofollow">Palomar's adaptive optics</a><br /><br />I'd like to see a fraction of the money of a Hubble service mission used to buy better lights for the cities near Palomar -- another of those help-the-environment-by-helping-science solutions.<br /><br />John Gjghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00588440067862480858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-6217054061690420372009-07-01T07:26:35.167-04:002009-07-01T07:26:35.167-04:00I hope the James Webb observatory will launch on s...I hope the James Webb observatory will launch on schedule and Hubble holds out so long, so we do not lose the visual spectrum. In the meantime there's also <a href="http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31361" rel="nofollow">ESA's Herschel</a> covering the infrared in the range of 55 to 672 µm and with better resolution than Spitzer.bluegruenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-40762315051340873302009-07-01T01:47:52.103-04:002009-07-01T01:47:52.103-04:00But for every cloud there's a sunbeam:
http://...But for every cloud there's a sunbeam:<br />http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/06/playboy-bunnies-bouncing-back.htmlHank Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07521410755553979665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-77320111176911326042009-06-30T18:20:44.725-04:002009-06-30T18:20:44.725-04:00In fairness, spending the cost of 5 Hubbles plus e...In fairness, spending the cost of 5 Hubbles plus eternal maintenance for them on a new accelerator would both provide a 1 in 1000 chance of finding a Higgs boson and also eliminate a trillionth of a percent of plausible string landscapes.<br /><br />We need to tighten our belts and prioritize - we haven't even budgeted the next set of wars and financial panics yet.Marion Delgadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09493068399042656060noreply@blogger.com