High resolution solar observations

Abstract

Traditionally the way to get high Quality images has been to find a good seeing site and establish a high quality observatory. It now appears that this procedure can be improved by installing active mirrors which correct real time wavefront tilt, and adaptive mirrors which correct, at least for a limited field of view, wavefront distortions introduced by the atmosphere. Space telescopes offer the further advantage of completely eliminating the blurring and distortions introduced by the atmosphere. Further space operations offer the possibility of uninterrupted observing sequences of many days or weeks.