Re: Diffraction rings

From: Brian Tung (brian_at_isi.edu)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 00:54:51 +0000 (UTC)

Dan Chaffee wrote:
> Actually, the rille in the Alpine Valley is not high contrast

Fair enough, but it's still a problematic example because it's a linear
object. Perhaps a better test is splitting the double craterlet in Plato,
or seeing the fork of Sinus Meridiani on Mars, even when it's far away.
(It's probably a bit too far right now, with an apparent size of about
4 arcseconds or so.)

> I meant on one side of the image of the disk, not either side of
> focus.
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Oops, OK, my bad.

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