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Old March 25th 05, 06:56 PM
Henry Spencer
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In article .com,
wrote:
How about this: putting 3 or 4 Hubble-sized (for redundancy & time-use
issues) craft in Jovian Trojan orbits would give you a 10 1/2
AU-equivalent instrument! That would almost see planets in Andromeda!


Only if you could hold the distance between them stable to within a
fraction of a wavelength of light, *and* beam the light gathered by one
to another across that distance without losing much of it. That...
presents problems, to put it mildly.

People are still struggling to make imaging interferometry work well at
distances of a hundred *meters* with both telescopes resting on solid rock.
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