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Happy Birthday
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This is really cool. Pardon me if I brag, but in a few years we’ll be in position to get vastly finer resolution. Dig this:
https://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/research/optical-interferometry/magdalena-ridge-observatory-interferometer/
Lots more. I can see the existing observatory from my front yard and Dr. Creech-Eackman (Principal scientist) is one of my professors. This is so freaking awesome!
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Yeah, well, I work on the EHT, which is a radio interferometer as big as the Earth. I spent a month at the South Pole last December, upgrading the receiver electronics at the South Pole Telescope.
It makes the VLA look teeny-tiny in comparison.
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Radio? That’s sooo 1895! /s
Yup. On the other hand, this one is not RF. More like near infrared, around 1 micron. IIRC the resolutions are vaguely comparable, in the milliarcsecond range. I know the design target is damned small, but they’re not claiming that until after they light up the array. First light on the first element is this summer.
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Looks a lot like what I remember from when I was being born.
Jus’sayin…
Ooooh, a p contest of astronomical proportion.
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I bow to the Master.
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Beat me to it!
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