BitFlow Reaches for the Stars Helping Mount Wilson Observatory Capture Celestial Images
Written by AZoOpticsJan 11 2021
Located on Mount Wilson, California, Georgia State University s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy array (CHARA) is the world s largest optical interferometer and has delivered landmark sub-milliarcsecond results in the areas of stellar imaging, binaries, and stellar diameters. CHARA is comprised of six separate telescopes across Mount Wilson that act together as one enormous telescope to attain the resolving power to define amazingly small details. To operate, the light obtained from each telescope is combined and a final reconstructed image can be observed that is of far higher resolution than would otherwise be possible.