Timescale measurements

The atmospheric coherence time for speckle imaging at I-band was found to be approximately $65$ $ms$ at the NOT in May 2000. The excellent image quality obtained using frame rates as low as $18$ $Hz$ in 2001 is consistent with this. The oscillation of the NOT telescope was found to cause slight blurring of exposures having duration longer than ten milliseconds.



Bob Tubbs 2003-11-14