Starship Asterisk*

Well SOMEONE has " to correct atmoshperic [sic] distortions ." Bit of sarcasm in there, What, me sarcastic :?: (Never to be confused with going senile .) ...was it incorrect information when I said that the laser guide stars are used for correcting atmospheric distortion? No...but I liked...

The observatory at Sodankylä is a geophysical observatory and is unlikely to have telescopes requiring "guide stars". Well SOMEONE has " to correct atmoshperic [sic] distortions ." Bit of sarcasm in there, was it incorrect information when I said that the laser guide stars are u...

Thanks for the replies, that clarified it for me

Anybody have any idea what that light is? It came from beyond the treeline and protruded and eventually vanished far off into the atmosphere. Shot few kilometers south of Sodankylä in Finland. My best guess is that it's a laser guide star for adaptive optics used in ground-based telescopes to correc...