New Gemini Images Exemplify the Power of Adaptive Optics
This composite image shows a small section of the core of the globular cluster M-13 as imaged by the Altair adaptive optics system on Gemini North (upper blue inset; 0.060 arcsecond resolution). Beneath the Altair image is an uncorrected "natural seeing" image (0.26 arcsecond resolution).
Credit:Wide-field background image courtesy of the Canada-France-Hawai`i Telescope/Coelum/Jean-Charles Cuillandre.
About the Image
| Id: | gemini0301a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | June 2, 2003, 8 p.m. |
| Related releases: | gemini0301 |
| Size: | 1026 x 794 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Star Clusters |
