New Telescope design

[wookie1965]

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-telescope-revolutionize-amateur-astronomy.html

Just reading through this looks interesting.

[Cornelius Varley]

Already discussed here

 

[wookie1965]

Just now, Cornelius Varley said:

Already discussed here

 

Sorry I have only just read it and a cursory look did not show anything remove post please. 

[faulksy]

27 minutes ago, wookie1965 said:

Sorry I have only just read it and a cursory look did not show anything remove post please. 

i have never seen it paul. thanks for posting

[Red Dwarfer]

57 minutes ago, wookie1965 said:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-telescope-revolutionize-amateur-astronomy.html

Just reading through this looks interesting.

Very interesting stuff ! Hopefully won`t come with a massive price tag though ... probably will to start with then go down over time ...

[wookie1965]

Yes be interesting what price they are, Be great scope have, nice and light but get some great views of DSO`s.

[xtreemchaos]

first ive seen of it too, interesting, lets see if the resuls match the hype, bet it wont be cheap, and bet it carnt beat the cloud. thanks. charl.

[SilverAstro]

2 hours ago, wookie1965 said:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-telescope-revolutionize-amateur-astronomy.html

Just reading through this looks interesting.

Very interesting read,

thanks, new to me too !

 

[barkis]

Will the views observed be proportional to the size and quality of the scope it
is used on? If so, the big Dobs. will be mobbed with one of these  piggy backed .

[Stu]

It says they may be available at $1000 as part of crowdsourcing for future development.

I too hope it lives up to the hype! It's not for everyone, but I can see the appeal.

[MarsG76]

very interesting...

new toy to shamelessly throw our hard earned cash at will be in order soon.

 

[ronin]

I might be wrong but it reads as a almost normal scope. With it seems the addition of some light amplification unit. Is this the same as Live View on a DSLR?

The first bit is a description of a scope, it collects light and delivers it to the eyepiece. It does not say it collects the light equal to a bigger scope just that it mimics the collection. Does that not mean that this just works the same way? My 60mm refractor mimics the way the 127mm refractor collects light but on a smaller scale. There is a 60 mimicking a 127, but it doesn't perform as a 127, it still performs as a 60.

The AFD is getting more common now, Meade had the LS and Skywatcher have the Starsense. It doesn't have the complications of an EQ mount because it is not an EQ mount it is an Alt/Az mount. As to the databases don't Meade, Celestron, Skywatcher and iOptron (the common ones) all use a database of objects. My 17 years old goto will try to tell me what I am looking at if I ask it so again not new, on all goto's that I know of.

What on earth is Campagain Mode? That again sounds like the inbuilt camera on the Meade LS. But why send data to anywhere I have no idea, especially the implication that SETI could have an interest.

That mount looks very much like minor variation of a Meade LS6 mount, as is a lot of the new features, variants of which I think I have seen on either the ES site or the Bresser site and occur on the Opticstar site under their Opticstar AZ90 scope.

[Peter Drew]

Interesting review of it on CN by a user whose 16" Dob was used as a comparison. Mixed results and some potentially significant compromises.