What is it about?

This article describes new techniques developed to improve the quality of images of Neptune and its icy moon Triton by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Infrared Telescope Facility.

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Why is it important?

This how-to article supports two companion articles that describe the scientific results.

Perspectives

When new techniques for increasing the detail and clarity of telescopic images are developed, it is important to share and carefully describe the methods, so that other astronomers can benefit, and can work to advance the field even further.

Professor Timothy E. Dowling
University of Louisville

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This page is a summary of: Coordinated 1996 HST and IRTF Imaging of Neptune and Triton I. Observations, Navigation, and Differential Deconvolution, Icarus, February 2001, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6562.
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