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Re: [LUG] Off-topic: Astronomy

 

On Thursday 09 August 2007 10:01, Terry Hill wrote:
> Hehe actually I've been wondering with the advent of "goto" scopes,
> whether a VLI was possible using amatuer scopes.  Is there a starting
> point somewhere software wise?  Would be nice to be able to write the
> software to distribute viewing tasks as client/server to start with.
Alas I think its not a software thing - I think you have to connect the scopes 
to an accuracy/synchronisation of better that 1/4u so that would mean fibre 
optics.. after that its more or less fft which is easy!
We could go for stereoscopics of the moon or other planets tho....
Tom te tom te tom


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