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A brief introduction to image reconstruction is made and the basic con
cepts of the maximum entropy method are outlined. A statistical infere
nce algorithm based on this method is presented. The algorithm is test
ed on simulated data and applied to real data. The latter is from a 10
24 x 1024 Hubble Space Telescope image of the binary stellar system R
Aquarii, which suffers from both spherical aberration and detector sat
uration. Under these constraints the maximum entropy method produces a
n image that agrees closely with observed results. The calculations we
re performed on the MasPar MP-1 single-instruction/multiple-data compu
ter.