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

LOG Friday May 6 2022

LOG Friday May 6 2022

Largest Telescope
I was asked about the location of the very large telescope which is amped up to a diameter of 140-inches. It's true, the telescope is a behemoth that takes up an enormous amount of space with its massive counterweight and equatorial mount. The OTA alone is too heavy to lift so random assembly and take down is out of the question. It's also incapable of being lifted or moved by a single person after its assembled. The current idea is to maximize the deck door opening and do observing the same as we did here:
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory_20.html

This requires freeing up an entire room and verifying the deck doors are wide enough. The alternative is to relocate the telescope to the top of the skyscraper inside one of the buildings made into an observatory. We'll need to observe precautions with potential wind at that level - thousands of feet in the air.

Nexstar Observatory

This observatory is still under construction. A total of twenty seven empty water bottles are now collected, however at least 40 will be needed to construct the platform backing (tentatively four rows of ten per row). The rate of collection continues at one per day on the average. It's noted the platform will work both indoors or outdoors, bringing the telescopes at both locations above the outside metal guard rail level for non obstructed views. The Nexstar Observatory is now intended to use a battery of telescopes that take advantage of various efficient reconfigurations for multiple applications.

Solar Observatory Upgrade

The solar observatory is getting an upgrade with an additional sun telescope. The second telescope will serve to rapidly test various filter combinations, quick check the solar disk sunspot status, and perform various testsand experiments in varying spectroscopic ranges. Other upgrades to the newly founded solar observatory will include a variety of image processing software designed for solar enhancements.

Weather Station Monitoring

We continue to observe the weather conditions at our weather station, noting the seasonal changes and short term variations. We are currently in a random varying stretch of overcast skies but this is breaking up and is beginning to have openings for observing. The locals specify clear skies being more prevalent during the summer.

Left: 101 by Mike Otis using iPhone to analyze weather conditions

Laser Status

Even safe low power pointing lasers used in businesses and schools are getting a bad rap these days. The police are calling these weapons and making arrests for possession. The attorney said the police cannot show intent to use as a weapon or all kitchen butter knives will become weapons of intent. Hence the controversy. Are cars also weapons of intent to kill? Pilots of aircraft are very paranoid as a few bad war players with high powered lasers are in the picture and causing a mess. There's an airport located not too far away from the observatory and as noted there are some dwellings on the mountains. Being in a high populous region, there's bound to be at least a few misunderstanding individuals who see the star pointer laser light and form a misinterpretation. Therefore we have canceled orders for all future lasers, removed the telescope low power star pointing laser, and now the laser to the Moon project is on hold or cancelled as are all other outdoor laser experiments. The laser usage will not be resumed until the laws become more clear in favor of low power pointing lasers used for telescope astronomy.

One Shot Camera

The ZWO ASI224MC is a one shot color camera. With one exposure, it captures color, made up of three constituent colors added together. There's no need to use a collection of four filters, red, green, blue and IR subtract, and take four images just to create one color photo.

INDEX

* Largest Telescope

* Nexstar Observatory

* Solar Observatory Upgrade

* Weather Station Monitoring

* Laser Status

* One Shot Camera