Hubbel sees companion of Polaris

http://www.physorg.com/news9694.html

Too cool. They say it required every bit of Hubbles resolution but the
photograph looks like more than a mere notching of a double.

On 10 Jan 2006 21:13:37 -0800, wrote:

Too cool. They say it required every bit of Hubbles resolution but the
photograph looks like more than a mere notching of a double.

What is amazing is the clean, roundness of the overexposed Polaris. It
almost looks like a real disk. Compare that with overexposed and
spiky star images in amateur scopes.
-Rich

What is amazing is the clean, roundness of the overexposed Polaris. It
almost looks like a real disk. Compare that with overexposed and
spiky star images in amateur scopes

Actually, as superficial as you usually are, Rich - you missed
altogether that
image you gave in the link is an "artist impression". Actual Hubble's
image
is in fact very spiky, just as in amateur scopes.
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2.../web_print.jpg

On 11 Jan 2006 17:28:48 -0800, wrote:

What is amazing is the clean, roundness of the overexposed Polaris. It
almost looks like a real disk. Compare that with overexposed and
spiky star images in amateur scopes

Actually, as superficial as you usually are, Rich - you missed
altogether that
image you gave in the link is an "artist impression". Actual Hubble's
image
is in fact very spiky, just as in amateur scopes.
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/2.../web_print.jpg

I thought it looked "too" clear and I should have realized that even
in the Hubbel, there wouldn't have been such a large visible
separation.
-Rich