[ExI] the vortices of Jupiter

[Damien Broderick]

At 06:10 AM 7/2/2008 -0600, Amara wrote:

>I don't see why a larger telescope 80 years ago could not have resolved
>some of the bands into eddies and smaller storms. Here, for example is a
>2.6 meter telescope image of Jupiter from the Nordic Optical Telescope,
>located at La Palma Canary Islands):
>http://www.solarviews.com/cap/jup/jupiter3.htm

Okay, Mt. Wilson's 100in Hooker telescope had been seeing for nearly 
a decade years by then, so maybe. But the Nordic is described in 
pretty glowing terms, and I wonder what advances are incorporated 
into it (adaptive optics, say) that would have been unthinkable in 1928?

Damien Broderick