Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
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Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
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COAST, the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, is a multi-element optical astronomical interferometer with baselines of up to 100 metres, which uses aperture synthesis to observe stars with angular resolution as high as one thousandth of one arcsecond. The principal limitation is that COAST can only image bright stars. COAST was the first long-baseline interferometer to obtain high-resolution images of the surfaces of stars other than Sun. The COAST array was conceived by John E. Bal
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English astronomical interferometer observatory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Optical_Aperture_Synthesis_Telescope
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2023-10-16T06:57:48Z
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