NOAO/NSO Newsletter
June 2009
This issue includes an article by Andrei Tokovinin about speckle interferometry at the SOAR telescope. Short-exposure images of a 1.08" binary star were co-added with re-centering on the global centroid (left), or on the brightest pixel, selecting the sharpest 10 percent of images (right). This latter technique, dubbed “lucky imaging”, is gaining popularity .
Commitment to Broadening Participation
AURA’s statement on its commitment to diversity throughout the astronomical scientific workforce.
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The National Optical Astronomy Observatory is proud to be a US National Node in the International Year of Astronomy, 2009.
