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Spherical aberration plus extreme camera shake
Mar 6, 2016 22:37:56   #
forjava Loc: Half Moon Bay, CA
 
A photography adventure story about the Hubble telescope:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=2144

Other disasters were avoided before launch. An engineer in Palo Alto built a visual simulation of mechanical movements. The sim showed a critical task to be impossible.

The project manager often whipped out his slide rule when a question came up in a meeting; he’d develop an immediate answer, to the chagrin of the computer jockeys.

Hubble out-performed its design the other day, after fifteen years, imaging closer to the Big Bang, as only the unfinished Webb telescope is designed to do. http://jwst.nasa.gov/recentaccomplish.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3475182/Galaxy-smashes-cosmic-distance-record-set-astronomers.html

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