The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provides opportunities from 0.1 to 1
to attain resolution not possible since the Voyager
encounter. The Wide Field camera has a scale of 0.08
/pixel
whereas the Planetary Camera has a scale of 0.04
/pixel.
Kenneth Seidelmann of the US Naval Observatory took 32 exposures of
Uranus on August 14, 1994. Although most intentionally saturated
Uranus to observe the satellite and ring systems, there were three
images (figure 2) taken with a broadband filter centered at 0.8006
that shows evidence of
high altitude hazes and clouds. Since there are no planned HST
observations during the time of my prime observations, the best bet
for high resolution red images is to acquire this data from the HST
archive when it becomes available. While the high resolution of these
images makes them useful for spotting feature, HST does not have the
sensitivity to observe the stronger methane bands in the near-IR.