No CrossRef data available.
Article contents
Imaging with a Coherence Interferometer in Optical Astronomy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Extract
In optical astronomy, images are highly degraded by atmospheric turbulence. The diameter of the seeing disk may vary from 0.2 arcseconds to 10 arcseconds or more according to weather conditions. A typical diameter is of the order of 2 arcseconds which is the angular resolution of a 6cm lens at the diffraction limit.
Large telescopes have been built for their light collecting capabilities, not for their resolving power which is, in general, of the order of 0.2 arcseconds, that is far from the diffraction limit.
- Type
- Part IV: Optical Interferometric Methods
- Information
- Copyright
- Copyright © Reidel 1979