Re: [Phys-l] stellar distance measurement

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Here's a basic (Wikipedia) source.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_interferometer

Here's more (scroll ~ 40%)

http://science.jrank.org/pages/3633/Interferometry.html

bc googler

On 2009, May 20, , at 13:58, Mark Sylvester wrote:

> That's very cool about measuring the diameter of Antares directly. How
> does the interferometry work? The optical path changes across the
> disk... how is the interference observed?
>
> John Denker wrote:
> > On 05/20/2009 06:31 AM, mark.sylvester@spin.it wrote:
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