The Big Bear Solar Observatory, operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, has obtained wonderful images with its adaptive optics system in the 1.6 meter aperture telescope:
http://www.cieletespace.fr/files/image_du_jour/011-03410-01high.jpg
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/
http://www.njit.edu/news/2010/2010-292.php
http://www.cieletespace.fr/node/5752
