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

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