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speckle interferometry

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speckle interferometry

–noun Astronomy.
a photographic technique for clarifying the telescopic images of a star by taking short exposures of the electronic images of the star's speckle pattern and extrapolating properties of the starlight to create a more accurate composite image.

Origin:
1965–70; interfere + -o- + -metry
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