Hmmm...
I was reading about CHARA and was wondering...
If you took two 4 inch refractors and separated them by, oh, 12 inches, and then vectored diagonals ( collimatiable, say, William Optics modified with thumb screws ) to make a binoscope...
Would that work and create a scope with the effective resolution of a 16" refractor? ( light gathering, of course, would only be that of a 5.5" or so )
I was reading about CHARA and was wondering...
If you took two 4 inch refractors and separated them by, oh, 12 inches, and then vectored diagonals ( collimatiable, say, William Optics modified with thumb screws ) to make a binoscope...
Would that work and create a scope with the effective resolution of a 16" refractor? ( light gathering, of course, would only be that of a 5.5" or so )