... Astrophysics Group . ... Aperture Synthesis with Light . ... MRAO Telescopes . ... Stars ? ... The astronomer?s desire to see things in ever greater detail is thwarted at optical wavelengths by the Earth?s atmosphere: making optical telescopes larger does not provide more detail in the images. ... The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST) has been developed to meet the very demanding task of imaging the surfaces of individual stars and studying the interaction of close pairs of...