Saturday, December 3, 2011

Some telescope improvements I'm looking for.

A six inch or larger APO triplet scope F-15 or greater that comes in two or more pieces that screw or clamp together as I like to travel a lot and don't trust my scope to airline baggage.

Adaptive optics that adjust for air turbulence as well as for the ridges in the primary mirror.  A telescope's brightness is halved for every doubling of the power.  Starlight scope electronics amplify starlight, no more dim views.  Resolving power is diminished by three quarters for every doubling of the power.  Digital resolution as well as amplification should cure this.

Starlight scope electronics convert light to electricity which is then amplified and converted back to light.  A laser shined on a graphene sheet generates electricity.  The human eyeball has rods and cones that convert light to bio-electricity which the brain amplifies and converts back to light, which is how we see.

The new solar energy panels scientists are working on use different length nano fibers to capture the full spectrum of solar energy from infrared to ultraviolet.  A nano imprinting lithography machine embosses the fibers on to a plastic sheet so they look like small antenna or eyeball rods and cones to convert the photons that strike them to electricity.  A nano fiber - 10 to the 9th gives you 10 to the 18th fibers per square inch, a lot better than CCD chips.  (CCD chip replacement?  New sight for blind people - superman x-ray vision?  And later on - TV flat panels and two - way TV.?).  If the solar panel electricity were instead amplified and then converted back to light, then several square yards of the fuzzy plastic mounted on a roof would give solar power by day and use as a space telescope at night.  Using phase array radar technology which rotates and focuses the electronics instead of the antenna, by connecting up each nano fiber , it would result in an extremely high resolution telescope.  Future orbiting spacecraft and interplanetary probes would have solar panels doubling as space telescopes, and by using different length nano fibers, could tune each panel to different wave length of light - infrared, ultraviolet, sub millimeter, x-ray, etc.

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