Comments on: 'Lucky' camera boosts telescope

Astronomers develop a cheap technique to improve ground-based telescope resolution to rival space-based telescopes.
Images: Taking the blur out of heavenly pictures

[gnhuftalen]

Old Technology in a new box--not newsworthy

The LAMP system seems to be an interesting application of several technologies that have been around for years and placed them all in use in one system in hi resolution.

For a few thousand dollars an amateur astronomer may utilize the same technologies. Admittedly on a smaller telescope, with lower resolution, but I ask CNET: Is this really news?

[foxmuldr2]

Re: Old Technology in a new box--not newsworthy

"but I ask CNET: Is this really news?"

How is it not news? How many billions have they spent on Hubble? Now we have ground-based systems that are producing double the resolution for a few thousand dollars.

The real news here is that no one thought of doing it sooner, and how many billions of dollars on Hubble could've been re-directed to searching for alternative energy sources, for example.

Of course it's news. It's big news.

[grayboe]

Old Technology.... Sure

I was suprised to find out something like this hasn't been used up till now. I bought a 5" telescope in December and have been looking at systems that do that on a small scale. Seems strange it would take "real" astronomers this long.

[Phillep_H]

New?

This article does not say when the astronomers started working on it. No one can come up with an idea today and have it working tomorrow.

[mattsdad]

Old technology, yes it is.

I have been using a modified web cam on my telescope for over two year now. It creates excellent pictures! If I had money, I could use a ccd camera with much better resolution than the web cam. Why did it take the professionals this long to figure this out?

[Strangebuttrue]

Why not apply the techinque to the Hubble

Okay if it makes earth bound images so much better why not apply the same to the Hubble Telescope and multipy its image quality?