Event Pictures > Solar Optics Space Café
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Dave Dooling socializing with Marilyn Lewis, a long-time friend and fellow education specialist.
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Dave Dooling, an education officer with the National Solar Observatory, shares details about the world's largest solar telescope and why scientists and society needs such a tool. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will use a 4-meter wide mirror, which will allow for a much sharper image for solar scientists.
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Watching the Advanced Technology Space Telescope presentation during the Space Cafe.
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Dave Dooling, an education officer with the National Solar Observatory, shares details about the world's largest solar telescope and why scientists and society needs such a tool. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will use a 4-meter wide mirror, which will allow for a much sharper image for solar scientists.
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Dave Dooling, an education officer with the National Solar Observatory, shares details about the world's largest solar telescope and why scientists and society needs such a tool. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will use a 4-meter wide mirror, which will allow for a much sharper image for solar scientists.
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While nighttime astronomers have enjoyed a boom in ultra-large telescopes for the past two decades, solar observers seem to be playing catch-up. Only in the last few years have advances in adaptive optics — which grew from the Strategic Defense Initiative — made it possible to think of solar telescopes more than a meter (3+ feet) in diameter. Dave Dooling, a former Huntsville resident and now education officer for the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM, explained the engineering challenges in building the 4-meter (13-ft!) Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, which will observe solar active regions 30 to 40 times sharper than what was once possible, and why scientists, and you, need such a telescope.
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While nighttime astronomers have enjoyed a boom in ultra-large telescopes for the past two decades, solar observers seem to be playing catch-up. Only in the last few years have advances in adaptive optics — which grew from the Strategic Defense Initiative — made it possible to think of solar telescopes more than a meter (3+ feet) in diameter. Dave Dooling, a former Huntsville resident and now education officer for the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM, described the engineering challenges in building the 4-meter (13-ft!) Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, which will observe solar active regions 30 to 40 times sharper than what was once possible, and why scientists, and you, need such a telescope.
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Dave Dooling presenting at the Solar Optics Space Café at the Chan Auditorium, June 4, 2011.
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While nighttime astronomers have enjoyed a boom in ultra-large telescopes for the past two decades, solar observers seem to be playing catch-up. Only in the last few years have advances in adaptive optics — which grew from the Strategic Defense Initiative — made it possible to think of solar telescopes more than a meter (3+ feet) in diameter. Dave Dooling, a former Huntsville resident and now education officer for the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM, will explain the engineering challenges in building the 4-meter (13-ft!) Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, which will observe solar active regions 30 to 40 times sharper than what was once possible, and why scientists, and you, need such a telescope.
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While nighttime astronomers have enjoyed a boom in ultra-large telescopes for the past two decades, solar observers seem to be playing catch-up. Only in the last few years have advances in adaptive optics — which grew from the Strategic Defense Initiative — made it possible to think of solar telescopes more than a meter (3+ feet) in diameter. Dave Dooling, a former Huntsville resident and now education officer for the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM, will explain the engineering challenges in building the 4-meter (13-ft!) Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, which will observe solar active regions 30 to 40 times sharper than what was once possible, and why scientists, and you, need such a telescope.
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HSP members socializing with Dave Dooling and new friends at the Solar Optics Space Café, June 4, 2011.
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Posing for a group picture are (l-r): Andy Sutinen, Regina Garson, Dave Dooling, and Chris McLemore.
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Dave Dooling, an education officer with the National Solar Observatory, shares details about the world's largest solar telescope and why scientists and society needs such a tool. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will use a 4-meter wide mirror, which will allow for a much sharper image for solar scientists. The image on the screen, a close-up of a woven rug, has similar structure characteristics to the magnetic flux tubes, or microstructures of the dynamic magnetic field changes within the sun.
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Dave Dooling, an education officer with the National Solar Observatory, shares details about the world's largest solar telescope and why scientists and society needs such a tool. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will use a 4-meter wide mirror, which will allow for a much sharper image for solar scientists. This image depicts one of the solar scientists discussing the capabilities of current telescope technology.
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Dave Dooling, the Solar Optics Space Café guest speaker, readies his laptop for a short video clip about the latest advancements in solar optics.
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Dave Dooling presents one of the latest up-close-and-personal pictures of a sunspot, but also says that more clarity is possible. The image shown here was taken by the New Jersey Institute of Technology's New Solar Telescope and may be the most detailed pciture of the its kind yet shot in visible light, astronomers say.
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Dave Dooling, an education officer with the National Solar Observatory, shares details about the world's largest solar telescope and why scientists and society needs such a tool. The Advanced Technology Solar Telescope will use a 4-meter wide mirror, which will allow for a much sharper image for solar scientists.