Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for this . Webb was a NC native and a member of one of our lodges. I'll get an article out of this thing. Ric On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:42 AM, David Rodgers wrote: > > > The James Webb Space Telescope is being constructed to photograph the > far reaches of the universe. Hopefully they won't make the same > mistake > they originally made with the Hubble. The primary mirror being a > whopping 2 microns too flat, which caused spherical aberration that > they > couldn't fix the Photoshop, so they had to send up a compensating > lens. > (Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to have Leica code the lens?) That > was in 1993. My how time flies. > > I know that was off topic, but sometimes I wonder if in the current > economic climate the only real innovations we're going to see going > forward will be from government sponsored projects. That's not so bad, > but I wonder if the Hubble will become a shooting star before we see a > full frame M.