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RE: ATM 8"- space & earth

To: "Thomas A. Moulton" <tmoulton@gte.net>, "'Hugues_Laroche@ses-astra.com'" <Hugues_Laroche@ses-astra.com>
Subject: RE: ATM 8"- space & earth
From: "GUINAMARD, Raphael" <Raphael.GUINAMARD@CRIT.RHONE-POULENC.COM>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:31:30 +0100
Cc: Asaf Shtull-Trauring <astropal@yahoo.com>, ATM List <atm@shore.net>
Reply-To: "GUINAMARD, Raphael" <Raphael.GUINAMARD@CRIT.RHONE-POULENC.COM>
Sender: owner-atm@shore.net


You are right Hugues, but don't forget that adptative optics that correct
most of the atmospheric turbulence are now available and in a few years big
telescopes like the ESO's VLT could work in interférometric mode even with
visual wave lenght...
Then it will not be worth sending a telescope in space for IR& visual wave
lenght, and the real advantage of space astronomy will be UV astronomy
(because UV is absorbed by atmosphere)
Clear (ground!) skies 

Raphaël Guinamard
France

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