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Stellar Interferometer at Narrabri Observatory

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Angular diameters of 15 bright stars having a wide range of spectral types have been measured with the stellar interferometer at Narrabri in Australia. The instrument is now being tried out on different kinds of stars including binaries.

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BROWN, R. Stellar Interferometer at Narrabri Observatory. Nature 218, 637–641 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218637a0

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