MODEL RELEASED: COAST telescope. View of the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST). This is the world's first optical interferometer telescope. Each of the three white boxes contains a 40cm Cassegrain telescope. Light from each is fed via beam pipes (silver/white tubes) to the beam combining building (beneath light). There the three images are merged by an interferometer to form a single image. This technique imitates a telescope of up to 100 metres diameter,and can achieve resolutions about ten times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope. Its first images were made in September 1995. This frame is a composite of two photographs | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Parker, David |
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