Tuesday, May 10, 2022

A Lifetime of Telescopes


Inventive Creative Experimental Astronomy by Mike Otis
A Lifetime of Telescopes:
Telescopes so large they boggle the human mind


My Telescope Progression Regression
A Lifetime of Telescopes by Mike Otis

This list is being refined and made more accurate, and is therefore in progress. Basically Era can be categorized into historical year, age and the type of telescopes. The eras may overlap and can be complex and complicated. Therefore this is a generalized summary at best.

Above: Singularity Observatory 1,325-inch Telescope
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory-1125.html

HSO Largest Ampled Telescope in the World
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2018/06/hso-largest-telescope-in-world.html

Historical Year Versus Chrono Age*
1955 - 3
1965 - 13
1975 - 23
1985 - 33
1995 - 43
2005 - 53
2015 - 63
2020 - 68
2022 - 70

* Check the new page about what is more machine - the telescope or the telescope maker

Era the Beginning (1955-1990)
Location: USA
I had planned for some time to make a list of telescopes which I had under my ownership, either DIY, purchased, or as gifts. The plan was to plot the telescope diameters to show increasing size up to a point and then decreasing size. However, the list is not that simple. Beginning in 1955, my first 30mm Tasco telescope was a Birthday gift and it sparked a series of astronomical studies and observations. After that, the telescopes ramped upwards in time until reaching DIY 40-inch and 50-inch diameter telescopes.

Tasco 30mm
Edmund 4.25"
Homebuilt 4.25" Space Telescope
(2) Homebuilt 8"
Homebuilt Lensless Schmidt Camera 8"
Homebuilt 12.25"
Homebuilt 40"
(2) Homebuilt 50"

Era of Online Telescopes  (1980-1990)
Location Headquarters: USA
When the internet became fast enough, I designed, programmed and put into operation a remote cyber space telescope that could be controlled from anywhere in the world. It could image all Messier objects and selected objects like B33.

Remote Online Robotic Cyber Space Telescope (ETX70 70mm 2.75")

Era Age of Experimental Telescopes
Subtitle: Telescope Inventions (1991-2011)
Location: Beijing, Shanghai
Then I retired and moved to Asia where I had time to work on DIY telescopes and create new telescope inventions, running a large gamut of experiments.

Camera Telescope
CAM Telescope
Crater Telescope
Folding Mirror Telescope
Flexible Mirror Telescope
Galileo Lens Telescope
Granite Objective Telescope
Liquid Mirror Telescope
Massive Magnifying Glass Telescope
Micron Telescope
MLT Multiple Lens Telescope
Obsidian Mirror Telescope
Pinhole Solar Telescope
Resin Telescope
Spin Mirror Telescope
Water Reservoir Telescope
Waterdrop Telescope

Era Power Telescopes (Feb. 2012 - May 2014)
Subtitle: Extremely Powerful Telescopes, Power telescope Initiative
Location: Taiwan

During the PTI Power Telescope Initiative, sixteen powerful new telescopes were invented, constructed and put into operation above the Earth. How did these telescopes originate? Conventional telescope technology had reached an impasse. I was determined to make the world's largest and most powerful telescope. However, obstacles existed. It would take 10 years to build, it needed a million dollars in cost, there was no place to keep a massively large telescope, and rainy humid overcast weather with poor seeing conditions were unsuitable for a telescope. I sat down one evening and invented the Power Telescope. The PT was initially about a thousand inches in diameter, immediately became the world’s largest telescope, was built and assembled in a single evening, was parked in outer space with plenty of room available, was located high above the degrading effects of Earth’s atmospheric for perfect seeing conditions in the vacuum of space, and a trillions dollars of parts in space to make telescopes were free for the taking. After the first telescope, more inventions of space and time allowed for the creation of more Power Telescopes with compatible pipe mounted extreme machines fit to govern their abilities. These power telescopes mix art, science and extreme technology, with space adjuncts residing in space, and a ground supercomputer at the Earth Control Center. Each telescope has a special noted “super power” that specializes in new attributes conducive to exploring the Universe in new visionary ways and making new discoveries leading to a greater understanding of the Cosmos. The telescopes are designed to follow the Prime Directive, a space exploration guideline set by the Big Brain Initiative, an intelligent machine life form.

01) ULT - Ultra Large Telescope (945-inch), the 1st Power Telescope
02) NULT - New Ultra Large Telescope (945-inch)
03) GT - Genius Telescope (1.5-miles, 15-miles, 150-miles, 7000-miles)
04) PGT - Paradigmic Genius Telescope (7000-miles)
05) MGT - Molecular Genius Telescope (over 7000-miles)
06) PGT-ET - Paradigmic Genius Telescope - Enhanced Technology
(7.5-billion miles)
07) PDT - Power Dynamic Telescope (9-billion miles)
08) GGT - Gargantuan Gravatomic Telescope (Earth to Edge of Universe)
09) SRT - Space Recycler Telescope (exceeds largerst Earth telescope)
10) MMT - Molecular Mining Telescope (beyond Universe)
11) IET - Inference Engine Telescope (dimensional)
12) M3T - Massive Molecular Mining Telescope (Universe Penetrator)
13) ET - Extrapolation Telescope (mathematical, beyond dimension))
14) IT - Interpolation Telescope (mathematical, in between dimension)
15) OT - Over the Top Telescope (14 telescope apertures)
16) SST - Symbiotic Symbiosis Telescope (dimensional overlay)

Era of Hybrid Synthetics
Subtitle: Telescopes with New Multi Selective Dimensional Adjunctive Universe Penetrator Designs Completed


* ET Extreme Telescope 100X 9,450-inch 240-meter, this telescope is the first with multiple Adjuncts - a synthetic aperture of Multi Adjunctive design and heralds in a new era of telescopes, size is .15-mile diameter or 787-feet wide. This is equal to about twenty 40-foot wide skyscrapers placed end to end.

* HT Hercules Telescope 1,000X 94,500-inch 2,400-meter , this telescope has a synthetic aperture of 1.5 miles

* ST Super Telescope 10,000X 945,000-inch 24,000-meter, this telescope has a synthetic aperture of 15 miles

* CT Colossus Telescope 100,000X 9,450,000-inch 240,000-meter, this telescope is 150 miles wide

* NWT New World Telescope, estimating an extremely powerful synthetic aperture of 1,500-miles in diameter, linked in space to Earth, this new world telescope punctures holes through gravity, space, time, and dimension, with phase cutting through nebula and interstellar dust & matter like a hot butter knife, reaching the farthest places throughout the Universe. Along with new technology, this telescope is the next design building upon the 150-mile synthetic aperture telescope and previous technology.

Era of Telescope Amping - Earth Based (2018-2022)
Location: South Pacific Ocean
10x Telescope One 60" 1.6-meters
10x Telescope Two 92.5" 2.4-meters
10x Telescope Three 140" 3.6-meters
100x Telescope One 600" 15.3-meters
100x Telescope Two 925" 23.5-meters
100x Telescope Three 1,400" 36-meters

Era Progression Regression (2016-2022)
Meade 70AT 2.75" Goto
Meade 60AT 2.4" Goto
Celestron 2.99" FirstScope Dob
Celestron EdgeHD 14" CGX/L
Celestron EdgeHD 9.25"
Orion StarBlast 4.5" Dob
Orion StarBlast 4.5" Equatorial
Orion CT80 (3.25")
Celestron Nexstar 6SE
Acuter Maksutov 60mm (2.4")

Radio Telescope Era
I made a variety of radio telescopes in the USA, China, Taiwan, and in the South Pacific Ocean, conducted small SETI programs, and explored various intense radio sources in the Cosmos such as meteor storms, Jupiter, the Earth's ionosphere, and Cygnus X1.

* Detector with Galena Radio Telescope (1955)
* Modified Transistor Radio Telescope (1959)
* S9 Home Built Radio Telescope (1960)
* Modified Portable Transceiver Ham Radio Telescope (1960s)
* Knight Kit Star Roamer Radio Telescope (1970)
* Modified 6-Tube CB Radio Telescope (1970)
* Heathkit Radio Telescope (1980)
* China SWL Radio Telescope (2010)

Telescope Record Keeping Stats
Celestron 5x24 Finderscope for FirstScope (In Use)
Svbony 6x30 Finderscope 7.5 Deg. FOV .49lb FL=120mm (In Use)
Tasco 30x30mm Refractor (Stored)
(2) Celestron 9x 50mm 1.97" 180mm FL f3.6 Finderscope (In Use)
Meade ETX60AT 60mm Refractor (Stored)
Acuter 60mm Maksutov-Cassegrain (in use)
Celestron 2.9” FirstScope f/3.9 Dob Collector's Signature Edition (In Use)
Orion CT80 80mm f/5 (In Use)
Meade ETX90 (Sold)
Edmunds 4.25” f/11 Reflector (Stored)
Homebuilt 4.25” f/3 Space Telescope (Stored Optics)
Unistellar 4.5" f/4 Digital eVscope (Defective, Returned to Dealer)
Orion 4.5" StarBlast EQ with Motor Drive (In Use)
Orion 4.5" StarBlast Dobsonian (In Use)
Celestron Nexstar 6 SE f/10 Schmidt Cassegrain (In Use)
Homebuilt 8-inch f/6 reflector Equatorial (Sold)
Homebuilt 2nd 8-inch f/6 reflector (Sold)
Homebuilt 8” f/2 Lensless Schmidt Camera (Stored)
Celestron 9.25-inch EdgeHD Equatorial (In Use)
Homebuilt 12.5” f/6.3 Newtonian Reflector (Stored)
Celestron 14-inch EdgeHD Equatorial (In Use)
Homebuilt VLT 40-inch Reflector Dob (Vandalized)
Homebuilt 52-inch GT Giant Telescope Reflector Dob (Cracked When Moving)
Homebuilt 52-inch GTT Giant Twin Telescope Reflector Dob (Decommissioned)
ULT - Ultra Large Telescope 24 meters 925"
NULT - New Ultra Large Telescope 24 meters 925"
GT - Genius Telescope, Apertures 1.5-mile, 15-miles, 150-miles
GTU - Genius Telescope Upgraded to 7K*
PGT - Paradigmic Genius Telescope, Aperture 1.5-mile/15-m/150-m/7Km
MGT - Molecular Genius Telescope, Aperture Over 7K-miles
PGT-ET - Paradigmic Genius Telescope Enhanced Technology, Aperture
Width of the Solar System 7.5-billion miles
PDT - Power Dynamic Telescope Explorer Class, Aperture 9 billion miles
GGT - Gargantuan Gravatomic Telescope, Aperture from Earth to EOU
SRT - Space Recycler Telescope, Special Design
MMT - Molecular Mining Telescope, New Molecular Design
IET - Inference Engine Telescope, New Inference Engine Design
M3T - Massive Molecular Mining Telescope, with Supercomputer
ET - Extrapolation Telescope (See Book)
IT - Interpolation Telescope (See Book)
OT - Over The Top Telescope (Most Powerful)
SST - Symbiotic Symbiosis Telescope (Overlay Chameleonic States)

1-inch Refractor FT First Telescope
This was the first telescope, a 30mm used to observe the Moon and Saturn, plus solar projections, drawing lunarscape, first study was regarding red and blue fringing of achromatic aberration

70mm ETX-70 Computer controlled GOTO
(Sold) 

60mm ETX60AT  Computer controlled GOTO
Used for lunar and solar study, penetrating air pollution, the effect of filtering by atmospheric air pollution

3-inch Reflector F11
This reflector provided the first views of M42, M31, Saturn, and Titan

3-inch Reflector F3.95
Experiments in automation, robot control, machine brain interfacing

4.25-inch F11 PT Powerful Telescope
First studies of the Moon, Jupiter and Mars, Lunar Mapping. Imaged detail on Ganymede. Strong Jupiter studies and focus on Jupiter moons. Used for determining the speed of light and various astrophysics studies, film development and hypering

4.25-inch F2.9 Space Telescope
Used as the primary objective in creating an amateur space telescope for launching on the Shuttle's Getaway Special program

8-inch F3 Schmidt Camera
A Schmidt camera, study of spherical mirrors, curving film, wide FOV astrophotography, mounting, techniques

8-inch F6.3
Primary workhorse telescope leading to many studies (see the 10X 80-inch MT Massive Telescope), dry ice camera, super cooled imaging, planetary cartography, cometary studies

12.5-inch F6 OT Observatory Telescope
Entered the CCD era with imaging, automation and computer control, discovered a new star, worked with Hubble Space Telescope et. al., accomplished many studies

40-inch Diameter Very Large Telescope VLT
Designed with a COSMAC ELF 1802 Computer, 144 Servo Mechanism, Real Time Figurable, Electric Filters, Vitual Cooling, Mirror Matrix Mounting, Computer Designed, 10 Year Project

Specialty Telescopes by Mike Otis' Propeller Powered Big Brain Machine
Water Drop Telescope
The Micron Telescope
The Multiple Lens Telescope
The Camera Telescope
The Cam Telescope
The Pinhole Telescope
The Crater Telescope

Historical Telescopes with Resin Optics Designed and Built by Mike Otis
52-Inch GT Giant Telescope
Innovative Resin Primary, Remote Ocular, Electric Focus, Auto
Figuring, Styrofoam Mirror Mounting, Ultra Light Telescope, Gravity
Systems

52-Inch GTT Giant Telescope Twin
Explored the Limits of Primary Extreme Mounting, Storage,
Handling, Surfacing Study, Weight Study, Experiments

Synthetic Aperture Telescopes Built by Humanoido
10X 30-inch Synthetic MB Made Big Telescope
Amplified performance 10X

10X 42.5-inch NT New Technique Telescope
Imaged detail on Ganymede, developed first enhancements in film hypering, cooling, sensitizing, flashing, summation

10X 80-inch MT Massive Telescope
A synthetic professionally acclaimed telescope with winning results - Mars Map, Mars Weather, Cometary Calculus, Occultation, Rings of Saturn, Martian Polar Cap, Mars Dust Storms, Jupiter Storms, Digital Image Processing, Star of Bethlehem, Venus Conjunctions, Moons of Jupiter eclipse & Occultation, Determining the Speed of Light

10X 125-inch EOT Enhanced Observatory Telescope
Stellar Mapping, Discovered New Star, CCD, VIP Video Image
Processor, OPTICS Language Written, Thermodynamic Equalizer
Observatory with a Voice, Observatory Droid System

10X 400-inch AET Amplified Electric Telescope
Study in Massive Light Bucketing, Amplification, Enhancement

10X 520-inch MET Monster Eye Telescope
Experimental, Secondary Experiments

Hybrid Synthetics - Telescopes with Singular Linear Adjunctive Universe Penetrator Design

10X 945-Inch, 24-Meter, ULT Ultra Large Telescope
Discovered Saturnian Rocks, Discovered Multi Storms inside the GRS, Ultra Deep Imaging, Penetration to over 13 Billion Light Years Near the Edge of the Universe Boundary (EOU), Penetrated the Globular Stellar Abyss, the Farthest Two Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe, Deepest Galactic Penetration into 2.6 Million LY Zone, Planet Outside Our Solar System, Pluto Detail Imaging, Multi-Meter Lunar Res with Lunar Adjunctive, Experimental, Inventive, Exploratory, Breaking New Technology, Relatively Easy to Use, Big Brain Enabled

New Hybrid Synthetics - Telescopes with New Multi Selective Dimensional Adjunctive Universe Penetrator Designs Completed

100X 9,450-inch, 240-meter ET Extreme Telescope
This telescope is the first with multiple Adjuncts - a synthetic aperture of Multi Adjunctive design and heralds in a new era of telescopes, size is .15-mile diameter or 787-feet wide. This is equal to about twenty 40-foot wide skyscrapers placed end to end.

1,000X 94,500-inch, 2,400-meter HT Hercules Telescope
This telescope has a synthetic aperture of 1.5 miles

New Hybrid Synthetics - Telescopes with New Multiple Additive Dimensional Adjunctive Universe Penetrator Designs Completed

10,000X 945,000-inch, 24,000-meter ST Super Telescope
This telescope has a synthetic aperture of 15 miles, 100,000X 9,450,000-inch 240,000-meter CT Colossus Telescope, this telescope is 150 miles wide

NWT New World Telescope
Estimating an extremely powerful synthetic aperture of 1,500-miles in diameter, linked in space to Earth, this new world telescope will puncture holes through gravity, space, time, and dimension, with phase cutting through nebula and interstellar dust & matter like a hot butter knife, reaching the farthest places throughout the Universe. Along with new technology, this telescope will be the next design building upon the 150-mile synthetic aperture telescope and previous technology.

Going Beyond ET - How It Was Accomplished
The New Multi Selective Adjunctive design was the next step in making massive gains in resolution and increasing the aperture by a quantum leap. The ULT uses a singular Adjunctive and now with use of multiple Adjunctives ushers in the age of the ET Extreme Telescope and beyond. What's beyond ET?

These new large telescope are made possible with the use of the new Accumulator invention. The new Accumulator invention for the ULT Telescope is simply revolutionary because it enables a quantum jump increase in apparent resolution and telescope size. It accomplishes this by combining the data from two or more, or many Adjuncts. The Accumulator can also sum the accumulated data from a single Adjunct, making the entire Telescope perform with significant enhancement. No longer is the Universe Penetrator (UP) the only device that can increase and amplify telescope resolution and apparent size (by 10X). The Accumulator has brought about enhancements of 100X and 1000X on top of the UP's capabilities. Along with the UP, this converts to 1000X and 10,000X. This is not an empty magnification reference at all, but rather references resolutions that determine functional aperture of the Telescope. It puts the telescope aperture into the range (from 24 meters) of 1.5, 15, and 150 miles wide. The accumulator also increase the clarity and field penetration yielding new powerful data about places in space and time.

The GT Genius Telescope
Note: As of July 2012, a new behemoth telescope is complete - the GT Genius Telescope, with three aperture modes (the 1.5-mile, a 15-mile, and the 150-mile)

Telescope Naming Conventions
The choice of telescope names is from the following pool (Bolded names are taken, the remainder are taken for development names) New World, Mammoth, Amplified, Monstrous, Monster, Far Reaching Penetrator, Massive, Far Reaching Arm, Eye, Behemoth, Herculean, Enhanced, Enormous, Extreme, Giant, Gargantuan, Massive, Colossal, Huge, Electric, Humongous, EE Elucidating Eye, Very Large, Ultra Large, Immense, New World, Vast, Twin, Hulk, Super, New Technique, GT Genius Telescope

** photos exist of almost every telescope mentioned here, but to publish all would take far more space than what's currently devoted to this post