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It seems that a large telescope suspended from a balloon
above the troposphere would make pictures as good as the Hubble pictures, but it would cost less than Hubble. A simple tilt mirror can stabilize the telescope image up to 15 arcsec (7.27x10^-5 radians). Source: http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/FlareGenesi..._4014_p214.pdf This is sufficient stability to get the full, diffraction limited resolution from a telescope having the aperture diameter of about one centimeter. A much more sophisticated system made of the tilt mirror and a separate system stabilizing the housing can improve the stability by at least three orders of magnitude, which is sufficient for a telescope having the aperture diameter of ten meters. I wonder why nobody is talking about large (ten meters in diameter) telescopes suspended on balloons. Do astronomers lack technical imagination, or are there other technical problems that preclude such telescopes. |
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