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Phone cameras don’t have multiple lenses working together that you can interpolate between to create a single giant virtual lens. The technique OP is referring
by whoisburbansky 5y ago
Phone cameras don’t have multiple lenses working together that you can interpolate between to create a single giant virtual lens. The technique OP is referring to is already used for the largest ground based radio telescopes.
- bane 5y agoExactly correct. And Labeyrie has a design in place for the exact type of fleet I'm talking about.
- mhio 5y agoDo you have a link to the design? I'm assuming it's a radio telescope?
- bane 5y agoNo the design is optical. Here's a white paper on the concept. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.cosmos.esa.int/documents/1866264/3219248/LabeyrieA_LabeyrieESAwhitePaper2019.pdf/371f2caa-e30a-40fd-b040-99af76734f97%3Ft%3D1565184643980&ved=2ahUKEwjl_pCCu9PxAhWYPM0KHXsWCJMQFjAGegQIDhAC&usg=AOvVaw2Z81efFvZCMGyv1lcZPqtj https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... Labeyrie has also proposed a fleet in L2 and on the Moon.
- PabloRobles 5y agoNot the OP, but I guess he is talking about the hypertelescope concept: https://hypertelescope.org/hypertelescope-en/ https://hypertelescope.org/hypertelescope-en/ For additional background, there are already optical interferometry telescopes in use, see VLTI by the European Southern Observatory (Chile, shared facility with the four VLT telescopes and some smaller telescopes).
- jagger27 5y agoWell, a lot of phones do have multiple sensors and lenses. For example, the iPhone's computational depth effect uses multiple cameras for a single shot.
- whoisburbansky 5y agoThat’s qualitatively different from the kind of stitching together that happens with, e.g. the VLA. The computational limits of phone photography don’t apply here.