On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:52 AM jim bell <jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote: ...
> Would it be possible to 'mount' three such 8.5 meter mirrors in an array > where they > are millions of kilometers away from each other, and somehow combine their > images > and to produce and preserve the resolution of the larger diameter? It > wouldn't multiply > light-gathering ability, but it would increase the angular resolution > immensely, perhaps by > a factor of 100 million to one billion. > I speculate that this is what is being alluded to in the article's > reference to a 'super telescope'. > It would not be sufficient to merely detect the images generated by each > mirror; somehow > it would be necessary to combine the light signals to include phase > information. Perhaps this > could be done by some sort of quantum process. > > Yes. This is already being done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_interferometer
