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Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope
The interior of the COAST bunker in June 2014
Alternative namesCOAST Edit this at Wikidata
Part ofMullard Radio Astronomy Observatory Edit this on Wikidata
Location(s)Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, East of England, England
Coordinates52°09′50″N 0°02′28″E / 52.164°N 0.041°E / 52.164; 0.041 Edit this at Wikidata
Telescope styleastronomical interferometer
optical telescope Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/ Edit this at Wikidata
Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope is located in the United Kingdom
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Part of COAST and the exterior of its bunker in June 2014

COAST, the Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, is a multi-element optical astronomical interferometer with baselines of up to 100 metres, which uses aperture synthesis to observe stars with angular resolution as high as one thousandth of one arcsecond (producing much higher resolution images than individual telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope). The principal limitation is that COAST can only image bright stars.

COAST was the first long-baseline interferometer to obtain high-resolution images of the surfaces of stars other than Sun (although the surfaces of other stars had previously been imaged at lower resolution using aperture masking interferometry on the William Herschel Telescope).

The COAST array was conceived by John E. Baldwin and is operated by the Cavendish Astrophysics Group. It is situated at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridgeshire, England.

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