Our knowledge of the Universe is substantially based on the progress in obtaining new information about the fine spatial structure of remote astronomical objects. It is not an overstatement to say that astronomy of the 21-th century will be the astronomy of high angular resolution. Enormous efforts (and huge costs!) are being spent to develop the methods and means for high-resolution imaging all over the world. Suffice it to note numerous space missions to the Solar system bodies, the Hubble SpaceTelescope, the VLTI project, etc.

Since the first attempts to improve the quality of photographic images of planets, undertaken by the Head of Department in 1970, a lot of specific problems of image processing had been solved by our staff, - from the pure applied ones, such as processing the space and airspace images of the Earth surface in 1974-86, - to spatially resolved photometry of faint and extremely compact astronomical objects in the 90-ths. We have neither HST, nor VLTI, we have no even a descent telescope of our own. But we have good partners (and beautiful friends at the same time!) here in Ukraine, and also in the U.S.A., Norway, Russia, and Uzbekistan. We are very grateful to all of them for their understanding and fruitful cooperation, especially to Prof. Paczynski from the Princeton University and to the Board of the Maidanak Foundation and its Chairman, Henrik E. Nilsen personally, who had made a lot to support and promote observations of gravitational lens systems on Maidanak Mountain which is one of the best astronomical site all over the world..