speckle interferometry

speckle interferometry
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.
[1965-70; INTERFERE + -O- + -METRY]

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