An atmospheric distortion or an optical illusion, no one could say for Sure.

Note that other factors will impact resolution for telescopes, including atmospheric distortion.

It is especially used in astronomical telescopes to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion.

"Not yet, still too much atmospheric distortion," said Armstrong.

The telescope has an adaptive optics system that compensates for atmospheric distortion.

Anyway, there was no twinkle from atmospheric distortion.

The range's 3.5-meter and 1.5-meter telescopes are typically used to help researchers reduce atmospheric distortion to take clearer pictures of objects in space like satellites.

The image shifted between brittle resolution and murky ripples caused by atmospheric distortion.

He'd heard that when one stood on the surface of a planet, the stars actually twinkled because of atmospheric distortions.

After ruling out atmospheric distortion and other possibilities, the scientists concluded that they had probably witnessed a "microlensing" event.

"The atmospheric distortion is really intense."

You use computer-controlled actuators to warp the mirror to compensate for atmospheric distortions.

They could clearly see the atmospheric distortion caused by the expanding blast bubble as a cloud of dust and smoke formed above the fire.

The test validated the system's ability to track an airborne target and measure and compensate for atmospheric distortion.

We send an interrogation beam to the mirror-this one was on the shuttle- and get a reading on atmospheric distortion.

"Then you correct the power and atmospheric distortion problems ..." He moved forward until he was only a couple of feet from her.

There was no atmospheric distortion in space to account for the constant flicker-ing of the station's lights, O'Brien knew.

The laser radar system couldn't fully compensate for the massive atmospheric distortion caused by shooting down through the atmosphere-but this time, it didn't need to.

From these data the computer calculates the shape a correction mirror would have to assume to reflect an image in which the atmospheric distortion is canceled.

They are commonly used in adaptive optics where they can be used to effectively cancel out atmospheric distortion.

By "freezing" atmospheric distortion every 1/100th of a second, the computer can produce a clean image that reveals vastly more detail than an unprocessed image.

When a new adaptive optics system is installed, allowing for correction of atmospheric distortions, the resolution is expected to increase to 0.06 arc seconds.

But he said that it was unclear whether the bulge indicated a jagged break in the wing or a mirage caused by distance and atmospheric distortion.

"Something's off..." "Have you compensated for atmospheric distortion?"

The theoretical resolution of this main telescope 0.07 arcsec, although this is never reached because atmospheric distortions degrade the image quality severely.