atmospheric turbulence in a sentence
Examples
- Even more advanced controls, called adaptive optics, are being developed to compensate for atmospheric turbulence in telescope images.
- Both Keck Observatory telescopes are equipped with laser guide star adaptive optics, which compensates for the blurring due to atmospheric turbulence.
- Deformable mirrors that can be rapidly changed in shape to compensate for atmospheric turbulence soon began steadying starlight in major observatories.
- However, since atmospheric turbulence is normally the limiting factor for visible systems looking through long atmospheric paths, most systems are turbulence-limited.
- American astronomer "'Percival Lowell "'at stopped down to 3 inches ( 7.6 cm ) to reduce the effects of atmospheric turbulence.
- In 1954, he returned to Porton Down to conduct field measurements on the structure of atmospheric turbulence and the dispersion of pollutants.
- At high elevations, the Earth's atmosphere is thinner thereby minimizing the effects of atmospheric turbulence and resulting in better astronomical " seeing ".
- The combined effects of limited aperture area and atmospheric turbulence generally limit interferometers to observations of comparatively bright stars and active galactic nuclei.
- They were rigged with computerized " adaptive optics " : By compensating for atmospheric turbulence, they allow for sharper images of distant objects.
- However, at that altitude the belt would be exposed to a large amount of atmospheric turbulence and might not be able to sustain orbit.