Re:Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics
by SiempreViernes on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:43AM
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The Hubble field of view is pretty small too, something like 25 arcseconds the internet tells me.
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Re:Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics
by eisstrom on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @09:54AM
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I was comparing it to HST WFC3 with a field of view of 160 x 160 arcsec^2 (https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/wfc...). Thats about 450 times larger than the MUSE narrow-field mode FOV.
I think you mean the high-resolution mode of the ACS instrument (https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/acs...) but that is broken and it was not repaired during the last HST service mission.
Re:Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics
by SiempreViernes on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @10:27AM
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Actually what I was looking at was the field of view of an individual MAMA detector in the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, that instrument has about ~ 100 x 100 arcsec2 of total field of view apparently.