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Google Maps View of Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer

The view is of the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer, just south of Flagstaff, Arizona. You can use the cursor to pan the image. You can also use the controls, top left, to pan and zoom.

The source code for this demo comes from the Google Maps API Documentation and has been modified to include the inset overview image, a sliding zoom, and of course to fit within an standard OLBIN webpage. My intent is to use this demo as the basis for a more interesting description of individual interferometers. The following Google maps have excellent views of the following interferometers.

• COAST
• PTI
• VLTI

Less easily visible are the following:

• CHARA Array (hidden amidst buildings on Mt Wilson)
• GI2T (on the Plateau de Calern)
• SUSI (barely visible at 8 o'clock on the circle of the radio heliograph).
• Keck Interferometer (OHANA view of Mauna Kea)

Peter Lawson
Updated 13 December 2006.

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