C.H.A.R.A.

The Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy maintains a very useful Web site at URL http://www.chara.gsu.edu. Besides having on line the latest version of their comprehesive catalog of all speckle interferometry measurements and photoelectric occultation double star measurements, they also have links to USNO's extensive star catalogs, including Worley's catalog of (visual) double star orbital elements; Batten's catalog of spectroscopic orbital elements; and the latest U.S., southern Canada, and northern Mexico weather satellite image, with radar precipitation overlay. They also have a very good service for predicting passes of artificial satellites for any specified location. Their documentation of the speckle catalog gives some interesting statistics and mentions the value of occultations for resolving doubles with separations smaller than those that can be resolved by speckle interferometry.

Go to the CHARA Web Site

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