Leaving aside all kinds of seeing aspects, can amateurs detect protoplanetary disks, e.g. in the Orion nebula stellar nursery? What might be the maximal pixel scale to do so; would 0.5"/pixel suffice?

Resolving protoplanetary disks in Orion
#1
Posted 21 June 2020 - 06:09 AM
#2
Posted 21 June 2020 - 10:25 AM
The problem isn't pixel size. It's seeing. What's your typical seeing? 2 or 3 Arc Sec??
#3
Posted 21 June 2020 - 05:14 PM
2-3 arcseconds. But that isn't the question, which is specifically without the influence of seeing.
#4
Posted 24 June 2020 - 12:24 PM
e.g. in the Orion nebula stellar nursery? would 0.5"/pixel suffice?
Yes
#5
Posted 24 June 2020 - 06:33 PM
You might be able to detect them but you won't resolve them, Just a small darkened spot.
When the start talking about radio telescopes there is always a reason-
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.03669.pdf
If I did the math right, some of the bigger ones are about 1 arc-sec. If you have 4x that resolution (0.25 arc sec) then you start to discern shape. At 10x with star to see "stuff) (i.e. 0.1 arc sec),
Just my guess, I haven't tried it. Be really tough with seeing.
Greg
#6
Posted 24 June 2020 - 07:58 PM
#7
Posted 24 June 2020 - 08:43 PM
This one should be just about be resolvable as being elongated at 1 arcsec resolution (~1x4 pixels at 0.5 arcsec/pixel)
https://www.spacetel...mages/opo9545h/
Robin
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#8
Posted 25 June 2020 - 12:33 AM
Lucullus
You may want to download the Speckle Tool Box and try you data set with Bi-Spectrum. You can combine it with Lucky as well.
https://groups.io/g/...einterferometry
Greg