Cameras a Million Miles Apart: Stereoscopic Imaging Potential with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes
The two most powerful optical/IR telescopes in history -- NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes -- will be in space at the same time. We have a unique opportunity to leverage the 1.5 million kilometer separation between the two telescopic nodal points to obtain simultaneously captured s...
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Zusammenfassung: | The two most powerful optical/IR telescopes in history -- NASA's Hubble and
James Webb Space Telescopes -- will be in space at the same time. We have a
unique opportunity to leverage the 1.5 million kilometer separation between the
two telescopic nodal points to obtain simultaneously captured stereoscopic
images of asteroids, comets, moons and planets in our Solar System. Given the
recent resurgence in stereo-3D movies and the recent emergence of VR-enabled
mobile devices, these stereoscopic images provide a unique opportunity to
engage the public with unprecedented views of various Solar System objects.
Here, we present the technical requirements for acquiring stereoscopic images
of Solar System objects, given the constraints of the telescopic equipment and
the orbits of the target objects, and we present a handful of examples. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1610.07483 |