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News Release 05-178

Solar Telescope Yields Striking New Sunspot Images

A high-resolution sunspot image.

This sunspot image shows what the new camera and adaptive optics system can do.


October 6, 2005

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Advanced technologies now available at the National Science Foundation's Dunn Solar Telescope at Sunspot, NM, are revealing striking details on the surface of the Sun.

This sunspot image, spanning an area more than three times wider than Earth, was made possible by a new high-resolution CCD camera working in conjunction with the Dunn telescope's recently completed adaptive optics image-correction system.

For more information, see the National Solar Observatory news release.

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