--- Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com> wrote:
Thanks so much, Kurt. Does the spooky action of light mean they won't be able to block enough light from a star to directly image a planet?
Per the images, they seem to have made it work on a testbed. What's different about the TPF context is that the "mask" is probably only going to be few microns across. Thus, diffracted light can "leak" by diffraction around the sides. That's different from the traditional solar chronograph, where the mask is much larger, both physically and in terms of the 1/2 deg size of the Sun. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/ - Canopus56 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com