Largest Collection of Optically Amped Telescopes

 Largest Collection of Optically Amped Telescopes

This season, Otis Astroimaging is displaying the largest collection of optically amped terra telescopes on Earth. These have single primary mirror objectives of massive size for exploiting a multiplicity of 10x through 100x configurations. Conceived and created by Otis at Astroimaging, the telescopes are mapped out according to their distribution as seen in the United Federation of Observatories logo.

List of telescopes

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/02/united-federation-of-telescope.html

  

  

United Federation of Telescope Observatories

The United Federation of Telescope Observatories contains the largest collection of optically amped terrain telescopes in the world, inclusive of the following 10x and 100x apertures (diameter in inches mixed with  meters).

45 inches

60 inches

93 inches

125 inches

140 inches

240 inches

450 inches

600 inches

925 inches

1250 inches

1400 inches

2400 inches

1.2 meters

1.6 meters

2.4 meters

3.2 meters

3.6 meters

6.1 meters

12 meters

16 meters

24 meters

32 meters

360 meters

610 meters

Note: Some of these mirror/objective systems are optically and/or physically enhanced and give larger diameter performances than specified. These are terrain telescope observatories on Earth, not located in space, and not MMT multiple mirror designs. The main objectives are single primary - cast giant glass mirrors. Generalized location is at the South Pacific Ocean Singularity Observatory. Any one of these telescopes can be removed from the observatory and made portable to shift locations around the South Pacific Ocean active volcanic arpeggio or worldwide regions.

World Class Terrain 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory Construction Underway
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/01/world-class-terrain-2400-inch-telescope.html

Largest Telescope in the World - Scaffolding
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/01/above-scaffolding-cabling-truss-and.html

World Class 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/12/big-24-inch-telescope-observatory.html

United Federation of Telescope Observatories

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/02/united-federation-of-telescope.html

16-Meter Telescope Glass Observatory

The 16-meter glass telescope observatory is part of the artistic rendering to show the intricacy of operations and the overall performances from the image processing and amplification laboratory. The 16-meter telescope system with its glass observatory counterparts is currently the largest known system in the world.

United Telescope Builder Power

16-Meter Telescope Glass Observatory
Announcing the largest 600-inch telescope glass dynamics optical amped terrain observatory in the world. The primary shipment of parts needed were received to complete the glass observatory and telescope system during the month of February 2023 and will be installed according to schedule.

— The 600-inch (16-meters diameter) Biggest Glass Terrain Telescope Observatory in the World, Full Aperture Optically Enhanced —

Glass Observatory is newest part of the Federation of United Telescope Observatories, with large divisions of Singularity Observatory, Sun Baked Observatory and a coalition of others. Glass Observatory is an integral part of Singularity Image Processing and Amplification Laboratory and is owned and operated by Singularity Observatory at the South Pacific Ocean Arpeggio range of active volcanoes. 

Largest Telescope in the World - Scaffolding

Above: Scaffolding, cabling, truss, and Serrurier curvature rendition of the world's largest telescope. This is a 61-meter diameter primary mirror telescope.

Telescope Builder Power by Mike Otis

Largest 61-meter Telescope in the World - Scaffolding

January 24, 2023

This marks the celebratory opening up and dedication of a series of small blogs that will track the development and construction of a new high technology telescope - the largest in the world - potentially just over 61 meters in diameter.

In this blog I'm sharing the latest schematic depiction of the scaffolding of the largest telescope in the world. This phase is currently working out potential details for the truss work, cabling, pulleys, shields, grips, and locking in a relative Focal Ratio...

Note: This is a lot of work and I plan a blog on the design or construction overview of all the largest telescopes located at Singularity Observatory. This is a real treat to see all the largest telescopes at one place at one time - never shown before.

The project design is going with the open yet shrouded double ended Serrurier design which will make the scope as lightweight as possible to the shocking and astonishing point of being portable and by special means potentially manageable based on a wheeled fulcrum which will introduce some degree of moveability and/or portability.

I know, I can't believe this is happening and for me, after heart surgery and coming back to life by the miracle of modern medicine, this is a once in a life opportunity going for the creation of something truly wonderful and unique - the world's largest telescope (single primary mirror) which will be entirely capable of the grandest of discoveries and space science. It's postulated that this telescope could change the world.

Largest Telescope in the World - Scaffolding 

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/01/above-scaffolding-cabling-truss-and.html

New Large Telescope Astro Imaging Questions for Investigation and Study

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/01/new-large-telescope-astro-imaging.html

World Class Terrain 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory Construction Underway

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2023/01/world-class-terrain-2400-inch-telescope.html

World Class 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/12/big-24-inch-telescope-observatory.html

Sun Baked Observatory & the New Sunspot

As seen above, power processing at Sun Baked Observatory has cube extracted a dice with the actual newest large massive sunspot. The dark cooler sunspot should be visible over the next several days with special equipment.

Sun Baked Observatory and a New Sunspot

January 20, 2023

Recently the Sun has ramped up activity considerably and a new giant sunspot was discovered. A cubic slice was made into the surface of the Sun and the darker sunspot was isolated for analysis. For current solar work, Sun Baked Observatory is using a 100X amped very large 600-inch diameter telescope with a special optical solar filter. Solar granulation is "still" captured with special cameras. Sun Baked Observatory is getting an upgrade with filters and telescopes.

New Large Telescope Astro Imaging Questions for Investigation and Study

 

Exactly how large can you go with your next telescope upgrade? It may depend on your resourcefulness, the depth of your retirement fund, the ability to manhandle massive optics, the strength to move huge mechanical and optical systems and your spot on the scale of life longevity. Time and money have some equation ratio as well.

 New Large Telescope Astro Imaging Questions for Investigation and Study

* Can house window glass filter out light pollution?

* What is the effect of very large telescopes when looking through a massive amount of light pollution?

* How does light pollution filter the image of planets through large telescopes?

* What is the effectiveness of large telescopes penetrating haze, smoke, light and air pollution?

* How to make large telescopes perform better from large cities with massive light pollution?

World Class Terrain 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory Construction Underway

Spectacular Telescope Amping, a telescope diameter amplification technique developed by Mike Otis over a ten year period, vastly enhances the primary objective mirrors of telescopes to create massive new scopes thousands of inches in diameter. Is it real, novel, a virtual spinoff, or something that goes beyond a technological divergence along the space time continuum, you decide.

Here, the M27 amped telescope view has stripped away the most wild imaginations of space and time penetration in an experimental catch. These runs often produce visuals never seen before through such large telescopes. Amateurs and professionals who sift through this visually treated data are often blown away according to their testimonials.

On the Orion Nebula, the imagery was so overexposed it appeared to "burn" holes into digital latent photographic image emulsive baselines. Mike Otis states, "this is an exciting era and it holds exactly the results desired and opens up the potential for exploration with massive diameter telescopes, for fun and taking a new look at space time - we've only just begun." A small original capture from which the amping is based upon, is seen to the upper left in the imagery, preserved and watermark embedded in amped results for memorable historical posterity.

Construction Underway

World Class Terrain 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory

Breaking News - January 2023

by Mike Otis of Telescope Builder Power & Otis Astro Imaging

Work began on the World Class Earth-based 2,400-inch telescope during the week of January 15, 2023. In a massive project instigated by Telescope Maker Mike Otis - founder of United Telescope Builder Power, the new telescope will contain and harbor all of Singularity Observatory technology developed over the past 21 years for increasing telescope size to massive proportions and that of future ongoing technology inventions to give astounding results.

There's a massive series of world class telescopes being developed over at Singularity Observatory in the South Pacific Ocean. Most are enhanced and exceed their quoted diameters. See chart below.

Technology Views & the Sky Roof

Not without its own share of exorbitant expense, and intended construction timelines, the new 2,400-inch telescope is going to contain its own sky roof, the largest new concept in telescope observatory with a design that permits global world wide in-situ views for any cardinal direction amidst the top realm of the tallest world skyscrapers available and deals in Otis-derived power processing systems to penetrate light pollution, atmospheric haze, air pollution, sky fog, and various clouds.

Computer and AGI Control

The potentials of a 5-tiered system of automatic telescope control are in the works. Thus far, a new fourth commanding computer has been acquiesced for the system and is being coded and configured by programmer Otis. The telescope will be strong on Apple Mac technology, including one iMac supercomputer, an upgraded Macbook Air with the new M2 chip, a secondary iMac equipped with the extreme limits of amping power and magnitude, Apple tablet converted to a full computer with a keyboard and all required resources, and last but not least, the system includes Big Brain Technologies' AGI Artificial General Intelligence machine person.

Location of the Largest Telescope in the World
The location, while initially kept under wraps, will have a new point of Singularity in the South Pacific Ocean where the finest sky conditions exist during seasonal variations. A literal abundance of ongoing space and sciences research departments will continue to conduct studies to penetrate haze, light and air pollution as needed to keep such massive Terran telescopes seasonally active and thus maximum time and power useful across the next generation of telescope evolution.

Enhanced Performance
Enhanced performances across the board - not only will the scope have the latest AMPING built it but it will also have additional upper high end performance enhanced optics for the highest content of light gather power. As far as we can tell, the glass primary objective will be oversized but how much over the 2,400-inch diameter baseline remains to be seen. The enhanced Secondary Diagonal optics will harbor a massive chunk of glass amped to approximately 500-inches across! Enhancements made optically often allow a telescope to perform in terms of light gathering power, like a much larger telescope according to users - a 6-inch like an 8-inch, or a 14-inch like an 16 inch, or a 2,400-inch that remains to be determined.

Teran Telescopes

South Pacific Ocean Singularity Observatory

Single Primary Glass Cast (not mmt)

* diameter in meters

61

36

24

16

12

Background & History
Singularity Observatory Technologies is the brainchild of its owner and operator, Mike Otis of Telescope Builder Power, and includes an array of the world's most powerful terrain telescopes, including the 1,225-inch, the 1,325-inch, the 1,800 inch and now the new 2,400-inch. In the Mike Otis Interview, he talks about his astronomical comeback and "this will likely be the largest terrain-built and managed telescope in my entire astro career lifetime, and well.. you never know what that might lead to..."

Origins of the Singularity Observatory
The Singularity Observatory Suite of telescopes were developed by Mike Otis, the founder of Telescope Builder Power and Singularity Observatory. Otis is a direct descendent of Elisha Otis, the world renown inventor of the Safety Elevator and Otis United Technologies that changed the world. Mike Otis founded United Laboratories - a technological science conglomerate for pushing the boundaries of experimental space science, and is the writer for four blogging websites linked below.

Otis is founder, editor, and publisher of international OTM Observatory Techniques Magazine from 1992 through 1997, culminating with an online version. The issues are mainly an ink printed magazine beginning in black and white, leading to color, and introduced the concept Telescope Builder Power which included many new powerful ways to design, create and use telescopes. From time to time, Otis makes reprints available.

  

Otis Astroimaging

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/

United Space Technologies

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/

Big Brain Technologies

https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/

Humanoid Robots

https://humanoidslabs.blogspot.com/

World Class Terrain 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/12/big-24-inch-telescope-observatory.html

OTM Observatory Techniques Magazine

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/06/new-section-for-techniques-of.html

OTM Observatory Techniques Magazine Star of Bethlehem

https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2021/03/star-of-bethlehem-found.html

More Announcements

 https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2022/12/new-announcements.html

Great Orion Nebula Rises

The Christmas special is the Great Orion Nebula, photo of the holiday night, in a remarkable black & white astro imaging capture. The images show much more detail as the size of the telescope increases. This is a non-Amped image with M-processing by M. Otis.

Great Orion Nebula Rises

Winter is upon us as the Great Orion Nebula rises around sunset and is favorably placed in the East for this astroimaging result. M42 looks good in practically any telescope but the large ones show color and breathtaking views.

Going into color mode yields the result below. Which is preferred?

The final processed photo below accentuates the inner filaments of star bearing nebula deep within the bowels of this simple digital transformation.

World Class 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory

Above: Otis primary telescope mirrors just keep getting bigger and bigger with no end in sight.

Telescope Builder Power - Construction by Mike Otis
World Class 2,400-Inch Telescope & Observatory
A new big telescope and observatory are now in the planning stages for construction. Before Amping, the optical base of 24" uses a glass primary and secondary set at the Newtonian focus and will have a resultant deep ended RFT focal length in the F3 range.

Such telescopes are very expensive and challenging to create due to the deepened parabola... with a 2-inch focuser and 2" FL lens, the telescope can produce 3.3x24/2 = 39.6 magnification at very wide field, ideal for deep sky. At the other range, projection with a sole 6mm ocular (.23622" focus) FL will yield 335x. Given the high concentration of light from the Orion Nebula, or massive Jupiter, just short of burning holes in the film's emulsion, a sensitive digital camera detector should saturate in a fractional second of exposed time.

When completed, Otis Amping software will transform this telescope into apertures of 240" diameter and 2,400" diameter. This will become the largest (Amped) ground based telescope in the world when located near Singularity Observatory. The latter power modus will exceed the aperture of the James Webb Space Telescope by 2,144 inches and the Hubble Space Telescope by 2,306 inches. Currently the largest Amped telescope in the world is located at Singularity Observatory and is 1,400-inches diameter. The new telescope will be 1,000-inches larger in diameter. Important new research and discoveries are inevitable - made possible by these world class telescopes.

It has been shown that a large telescope, when focused on deep sky, can penetrate far deeper than smaller scopes in a light polluted location and then extract a huge amount of detail through proper processing. The observatory, if all checks out, will be several thousand feet higher in elevation than the current complex and possibly situated on top of the roof expanse depending on the deal struck - atop one of the tallest skyscrapers in the region! Stay tuned for more details and developments about this ongoing project.

New Terrene Experimental Gold Hexagonal Telescope

The new Terrene Experimental Gold Hexagonal Telescope GHT is comprised of many gold plate hexagonal mirrors that make up the entirety of the multi-mirrored primary, for mind bending transparency into a far deeper and wider range of spectacular wavelength celestial images, inclusive of optical and deep infrared, the latter for far greater mystical appearing ongoing penetration into the cosmic web.

Above: Nineteen hexagonal mirror sections are compound arranged to make one massive astronomical single performing mirror. Mirror section tiles are ultra thin, designed to flex a given amount to achieve a warped parabolic shape. The center is the focal point of application where tension is applied to warp the membrane into a technical figure. More or less tiles and their size determine the actual mirror diameter.

Inventor and astronomer Mike Otis has created the new terrene experimental Gold Hexagonal Telescope which is currently being unveiled through private industry United Space Technology with resources from Otis Astroimaging, SPACE1, and Big Brain Technologies, as one of the most significant scientific telescope breakthroughs of all time at the new observatory.

International parts to make the telescope come from all over the world. Privately financed by Otis, the telescope is part of a powerful aggregate series of telescopes designed to make new discoveries and penetrate the celestial cosmic abyss unlike any other astronomical instrument. The telescope uses a version of Enchanted Code, developed by Otis.

The GHT is heavily purposed to measure and study vast intermittent spooky dynamic flux fields in particular sky regions of burning interest in order to better develop new ways to blast through the random cosmic shield, improve electrodynamic space travel, and enter the cosmological abyss with greater clarity. Another potential use is the search for locations in the vast galactic celestial sphere containing ancient civilizations. Add on instruments include a wide variety of optical equipment including a potential optical spectroscope for spectroscopic analysis of the chemical composition of various celestial phenomena.

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2022/12/new-gold-hexagonal-telescope.html

New Telescope Build

The Gold Hex Telescope has a secondary mirror to reflect the light waves to the observational ocular and equipment center.

New Telescope Build

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2022/12/new-gold-hexagonal-telescope.html

Moon Mars Occultation

Mars is about to move behind the Moon during a recent occultation shot through obscuring atmospheric ionic conditions, and resurrected via multiple core gradient level image processing. Note the various unexpected albedo levels from the planet and the aura produced by the Moon disk perimeter, likely due to limb variations in brightness and scattering in the atmosphere.

Moon Mars Occultation

Heavily processed and amplified Moon Mars occultation image shot through heavy random upper ionic atmospheric pollution. Shooting through a blanket layer of total sky obscuration is an art within itself. Subtracting off light pollution and balancing a view through ionic obscura requires numerous software packages programmed to resurrect the latent digital image. Background sky is a contentious variable dealt with by using multiple iterations of software processing.

Winter Rainy Season

Winter Rainy Season

The winter rain season is in full swing, with temperatures falling by approximately ten degrees every two weeks. Skies are overcast and therefore work will continue indoors on previous collected data and special projects.

Telescopes are in hibernation and various degrees of work on the new observatory are temporarily suspended until conditions improve. Several heaters are used 24/7 along with a dehumidifier to take the edge off the cold dampness. By Sunday, temps will fall another ten degrees and the next level, if reached, will produce snow although that would be a rare and relatively short term experience. Indoors, the observatory and all rooms are composed of no insulation, with concrete walls and glass ceramic floors, all constructed in the local region style. The indoor environment easily reaches and matches the outdoor temperature conditions if left unchecked.

Jupiter Mars

Jupiter Mars

Jupiter Mars conjunction on the morning of June 6th, 2022, and compared with a planetarium program, Celestron's SkyPortal, at approximately the same time.

Shot with iPhone 6 Plus and NightCap Camera at 1 second exposure. Visually, through intense and massive urban light pollution, only Jupiter and Mars were visible.

The Apple iPhone NightCap app brings out more stars in Aquarius, Pisces and Pegasus constellations.

The original image is processed with multiple software programs to suppress grain and bring out additional stars.

Left: The additional planetarium view shows stars at a smaller image scale for more easy identification.

NightCap is $2.99. NightCap Camera 4+ is a night and low light camera from Realtime Dreams Limited. The app review: Do you find your photos and videos dark and grainy in low light? NightCap will help by unlocking the full potential of your iPhone or iPad's camera.

AI camera control makes it easy by automatically setting optimum focus and exposure for a brighter, clearer shot. All you need to do is hold steady and tap the shutter. If you prefer manual control then instant gesture based adjustment is always available, and special camera modes give you DSLR like results. You can even shoot photos, videos and time lapse in black and white if you want to. Try Long Exposure mode for amazing motion blur effects and reduced image noise in low light. NightCap has an ISO Boost feature that allows 4x higher ISO than any other app, producing much brighter low light photos with low noise in Long Exposure mode!

Light Trails mode preserves moving lights - ideal for moving traffic at night, fireworks or light painting. These modes are stunning when combined with HD or 4K time lapse! There are 4 dedicated astrophotography camera modes. Stars Mode is ideal for a starry sky or Northern / Southern Lights (Aurora), or leave your device capturing in Star Trails Mode and watch the stars paint circles in the sky! There are also modes for easy photography of the International Space Station (ISS) and meteors (shooting stars).

Visit nightcapcamera.com for tutorials. Features:

• Video recording with special Night Mode and full manual control.

• Time lapse recording with adjustable speed, long exposure and light trails support and up to 4K resolution on iPhone 6s or newer or 1080p HD on older devices.

• Aidie, a fully automatic AI camera operator chooses the optimum camera settings for you automatically, meaning brighter, clearer photos in low light with less risk of blurring the shot. All you need to do is hold steady and tap the shutter.

• AI enhanced focusing in very low light for fast, reliable focus.

• Automatic camera modes for Meteors (shooting stars), ISS (International Space Station), stars and star trails make these difficult tasks easy.

• Innovative manual camera controls designed for photographers: intuitive gesture-based control of exposure, ISO, focus and even white balance. Simply swipe to adjust.

• Long Exposure mode: Capture detailed, noise-free low light shots.

• Light Trails mode: Perfect for light painting and even astronomy: photograph star trails with unlimited exposure time!

• ISO Boost allows up to 4x higher ISO than any other app.

• Light Boost instantly boosts brightness while preserving image detail.

• Noise Reduction Mode helps reduce image noise.

• 8x Zoom control (camera-style for easy, smooth zoom).

• Full Apple Watch support with live preview and control of the main app features.

https://www.nightcapcamera.com/

Violet Filter W47

Violet Filter W47
Check your spectral charts for the W47 filter as they vary from various filter manufacturers.

A W47 filter allows violet light to pass but also allows a small amount of Infrared light right at the other end of the spectrum to pass. It is most useful in observing Venus because of its ability to reveal dark shading in the upper atmosphere. Its low transmittance makes it suitable (in general) for larger telescopes above 8" of aperture.

A W47 filter allows violet light to pass but also allows a small amount of Infrared light right at the other end of the spectrum to pass. 

The spectral transmission curve for the Wratten 47 deep blue filter.

This is a representative Wratten transmission curve in a general article on color filters. It is not an actual transmission curve for any specific product that we sell. AgenaAstro. The chart stops at 700nm. The #47 near-IR leak starts at about 700nm, so the leak is apparently just off that chart.

Here are imaging examples with a Nexstar 6SE. (Nexstar 6se, ASI1600mm, UVenus filter, no Barlow. Used 1291 out of 4400 frames. Second out of five consecutive attempts. Others were a bit worse, mainly tracking pushing Venus out of the small capture window I was using to maximize framerate at about 80/second.)

https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/562488-small-bore-challenge-venus-w-6-or-less/page-2

Sucker Clouds at Sun Baked Observatory

Sucker Clouds at Sun Baked Observatory

When the temperatures rose to over 90-degrees F. in the shade (averaging 120-degrees in direct sunlight), water vapor evaporated and the sun made an appearance in the morning of Thursday, June 2, 2022 - rain momentarily stopped, then sucker holes in the clouds began to appear. How long this will last in unclear as the weather reports rain for the rest of the day.

Parts are slated for ordering to increase the resolution and capacity of Sun Baked Observatory. Improvements are being made to the mounting, guiding, and tracking system. Solar prominences along the sun's limb are being tuned to spectral wavelengths and numerous tests are being performed.

Sun Baked Observatory Shroud

Sun Baked Observatory Shroud for Successful Solar Imaging

Imaging the sun with a mobile phone camera function is possible, however the touchscreen can be very problematic. For example, iPhone has a highly reflective screen that reflects so many images in bright sunlight, the photo image on the screen becomes completely lost in the reflective glare.

One simple solution is to make a hood of black material, with plenty of air circulation ventilation. An anti-reflective screen cover may also help. As a third option, go to settings and change the phone screen brightness to maximum.

Acuter Maksy 60 & Celestron Nexyz

Acuter Maksy 60 & Celestron Nexyz

At first glance, and for the impatient, it would seem the Celestron Nexyz mobile phone mount was not going to work for the Acuter Maksy 60 telescope.

Above Photos: the best arrangement was found by rotating the 90-degree diagonal and tilting the mobile phone in its mount slightly to one side.

The ten ounces added significant weight to the light 1-lb Acuter Maksy 60 OTA and would appear to burden the tiny tripod. To make matters worse, the rack mechanism appeared to ram into the OTA when the phone was positioned back over and above the OTA to gain some semblance of balance. 

The Acuter has a permanent balance point over the tiny tripod and is not adjustable. In some positions, the weight of the mount and phone can tip over the telescope and tiny tripod.

Left & Above Left: Arrow marks the rack support that rams into the telescope's OTA preventing the attachment of the mobile phone holder. This happens when positioning the length of the mobile phone above and along the OTA when trying to achieve the best balance. 

However, all these points are fixable by positioning the mount and phone camera as seen in the photo at the top of this page.

Left: make sure the control knob does not ram into the Acuter Maksy 60 OTA optical tube assembly.

A small amount of experimenting and various adjustments by trial and error will bring the mobile phone and its mount to the correct position, with no tube interference and no telescope tippage. Top photos show one correct way to position the cell phone and mobile phone holder, for no tube interference and the best weight balancing. At left, the knob is ramming into the tube.

The Celestron NexYZ is well constructed, easy to use, and the cell phone clamp has a perfect amount of grip - not too heavy and not too loose. The grip does not press on the buttons at the side of the iPhone. The Celestron NexYZ has become the mobile phone holder for astro imaging, by choice. The holder currently sells for about $80.95. Note: the best balance position may vary depending on the telescope's orientation for the object which is being viewed.

“Unlike other adapters, the NexYZ features three directional knobs (X, Y and Z axes) that perfectly align your phone’s camera with the scope eyepiece in seconds. In addition, you can make tension adjustments to keep the phone firmly in place and, rather pleasingly, the clamp system allows the phone to be positioned to capture images in landscape mode as opposed to portrait, which is so often the hallmark of most smartphone images.” – from Expert Reviews, Birdwatch magazine, November 2018

“Fitting the phone to the adapter is simple and quick, and the phone is held securely in place – no need to worry about it dropping out as you move around. You then adjust the phone’s position using the X and Y axis knobs – this too is easy and relatively quick. Finally, the Z axis knob enables you to lower or raise the phone to eliminate vignetting.” – Matt Merritt, “Unlock your phone’s potential,” Gear Reviews, Birdwatching magazine, August 2018

Celestron NexYZ 3-Axis Universal Smartphone Adapter Item # 81055

https://www.celestron.com/products/nexyz-3-axis-universal-smartphone-adapter

Celestron NexYZ Smartphone Adapter
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/04/celestron-nexyt-smartphone-adapter.html

New Blog Just Starting
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2020/05/post-number-one.html

Acuter Maksy 60 & Celestron Nexyz
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/05/acuter-maksy-60-celestron-nexyz.html

Celestron Mobile Phone Mount
https://otisastro.blogspot.com/2022/05/celestron-mobile-phone-mount.html

Amazon Reviews

https://www.amazon.com/Celestron-3-Axis-Universal-Smartphone-Adapter/dp/B07D7V3B8M?th=1

On the Road to Better Mobile Phone Imaging

On the Road to Better Mobile Phone Imaging

Every time one is forced to touch the mobile phone's touch screen, as in taking a photo, vibrations are introduced into the telescope system along with being open to touch pad errors.

In the case of videos over photos, two jarring taps are needed instead of one. The first to start the video and the second to stop the video.

Photos will blur due to motion. Fingers may be too dry and not register the tapping, tapping may need to be repeated, and tapping for exposure is a problem. Moisture in the air may create touch screen failures and anomalies.

The idea is to use a wireless bluetooth operated mobile phone camera remote control for the shutter. This will not introduce vibrations and taking a photo does not require tapping on the touchscreen. The device is so small, it can be worn on a necklace strap or bracelet so as not to become lost and also to remain handy for quick use.

If you have an older phone and a newer phone, two different remote shutters may be needed, one for each phone based on the differences in bluetooth frequencies or the changing technology standards and the phone's programming differences. These devices are not expensive and generally cost between five and ten dollars.

The remote shutter uses one button battery, CR2032, and it's a good idea to keep a few spares on hand. The range of the Bluetooth® connection is approximately 30 feet (10 meters). However, maximum communication range will vary depending on obstacles (person, metal, wall, etc.) or the electromagnetic environment.