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Old 07-02-2006, 12:56 PM
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Somewhere during the searches I did on double stars this was mentioned... BUT seeing conditions screw up a lot of the theory. I did see some interesting work on amateur speckle interferometery with doubles which allowed "recognition" of close doubles. How this could be applied to planetary disks is beyond me but.....
In another thread the use of filar micrometers is dead. The humble Webcam can do a far better job of measuring double stars maybe we should set up some close doubles for our experiments to see exactly what resolution we can achieve????

Would this be "more meaningful" than using planets???. Always a concern in the back of my mind that our image manipulation is adding detail that's not really there! How's that for a can of worms.
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