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omthegreat
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This is probably a stupid question, but it has been bugging me.
We are severely limited in ground based observations due to atmospheric seeing effects distorting the image. Why then are we not concerned by the vast amounts of gas/planets/etc in the line of path to our source that should also introduce a seeing effect?
Is it just that the densities of these intervening gas clouds are so low that scattering is negligible and intervening planets are too small to have an impact?
We are severely limited in ground based observations due to atmospheric seeing effects distorting the image. Why then are we not concerned by the vast amounts of gas/planets/etc in the line of path to our source that should also introduce a seeing effect?
Is it just that the densities of these intervening gas clouds are so low that scattering is negligible and intervening planets are too small to have an impact?