Imagine Looking Through an Eyepiece on a Huge Telescope on the Moon
t's astounding enough to look through an eyepiece on the Magellan telescopes, which really is done on rare occasion. But what if you could transport that telescope to the Moon to get rid of the blurring of the Earth's atmosphere? Or what if you could use adaptive optics to give you a diffraction-limited view through that eyepiece? Circumstances have allowed the MagAO team to do just that. To their knowledge, they are the first humans to spy, with their very own eyes, what it would be like having Magellan on the Moon. Their BLOG describes the events. A Carnegie website story can be found HERE.
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