Astronomers have developed a new visible-light adaptive optics (AO) system for the 6.5 meter diameter Magellan-Clay telescope in Chile's Atacama desert. The new AO system replaces the secondary mirror ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been fitted with new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography. The telescope has achieved first light using the new optics ...

It’s sometimes easy to forget that the light in the sky is an actual star. With how reliable it is and how busy we tend to be as humans, we can take that incredible fact and stow it away and largely ...

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode called laser tomography -- and has captured remarkably sharp test images of the planet Neptune and other ...

Berkeley — A two-hour observation of Jupiter using an improved technique to remove atmospheric blur has produced the sharpest whole-planet picture ever taken from the ground, according to astronomers ...

For backyard astronomers, the promise of image-stabilized binoculars is simple: sharper, steadier views of the night sky ...

The software for correcting image distortions and noise is getting a new raw-conversion engine and other changes in a version due to ship beginning this month. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Jenoptik is making its first presentation of polymer optics with an innovative antireflective surface coating to suit a multitude of applications at last Optatec 2012. One of the few vendors in this ...