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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by pfdietz on Monday October 07, 2024 @12:42PM (#41767870)
It doesn't gather as much light as ground based telescopes, but the background (for example, from airglow) is also much lower, so the SNR is pretty good.
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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by dylan604 on Monday October 07, 2024 @07:11PM (#41772100)
That's one of the reasons for building in the Atacama desert. Also, the adaptive optics technology has pretty much removed the majority of the negatives from the atmosphere.
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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by derlvative on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @01:10AM (#41774031)
What's SNR?
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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by ludwigschubert on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @03:11AM (#41774536)
An abbreviation for “signal-to-noise ratio” that imo should have been StNR or simply S/N. (Thus I sympathize with not parsing it immediately — it is widely used, though, so it is good to know.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-to-noise_ratio_(imaging...

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