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

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.