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- From: andy@osea.demon.co.uk (Andrew Haveland-Robinson)
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- Subject: Re: Putting telescopes on the moon
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- References: <Bxs37M.M81.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 03:26:58 +0000
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- In article <Bxs37M.M81.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov writes:
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- >-But, you ask, so what? Won't mixing the signals from the combined
- >-telescopes in the array isolate the light from the planet? Well, yes
- >-and no. You can boost the signal-to-noise ratio by an amount that's
- >-proportional to the number of telescopes in the array. That might
- >-allow you to detect the presence of the planet, where you couldn't
- >-otherwise. But unless you start with a pretty clean signal in the
- >-first place, there will be far too much noise to allow anything like
- >-imaging of continents.
- >
- >Would speckle interferometry, or integration of the incoming signals over
- >very long periods of time (hours to weeks) help with reception? (Other than
- >the fact that planets move over such time intervals.)
- >
- >I think you've made your point that the resolution formula can't be extended
- >out to infinity. I'd be interested in how far it *can* be extended with, say,
- >100 high-precision 10-meter optical telescopes.
- >
- >John Roberts
- >roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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- Be good for SETI too - I expect the moon would act as an effective shield
- against the electromagnetic crap emanating from our orbiting toilet... :-)
-
- Just a matter of time I guess (<1,000 years?)
-
- Andy.
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