Claim: Tiny Eye Telescope Brings Back A World Of Sight
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: NEOSTEL
text: of ESA's Space Situational Awareness Programme. The telescope itself should be complete by end of 2019, and installation on Mount Mufara, Sicily should be complete in 2020, having been agreed with the Italian Space Agency in October 2018. The fly eye aspect of the telescope refers to the use of compound optics, as opposed to the single set of optics used in a conventional telescope. Historically, telescopes have been designed around a single human observer looking through an eye piece. As technology has developed astrographs have been used where either a photographic plate or CCD records the image, which a

title: Small telescope
text: Small telescope A small telescope is generally considered by professional astronomers to be any reflector-type telescope with a primary mirror of less than diameter. By amateur standards a small telescope can have a primary mirror/aperture less than in diameter. Little if any professional-level research is performed with the refracting type of telescope in the modern era of astronomy. Small telescopes dominate astronomical research in the fields of asteroid and comet discovery and observation, variable star photometry, and supernova and nova discovery, and colorimetry and polarimetry of the solar system's planets. Because of their limited light-gathering capability, small telescopes are usually

title: Cosmic Eye
text: Cosmic Eye Cosmic Eye is a short film and iOS app, developed by astrophysicist Danail Obreschkow. It shows the largest and smallest known scales of the universe by gradually zooming out from and then back into the face of a young lady called "Louise". According to the developer, the film and app were inspired by the essay "Cosmic View" (1957) and the short films "Cosmic Zoom" (1968) and "Powers of Ten" (1977), but use state-of-the-art know-how and new scientific imaging and computer simulations. "Cosmic Eye" was developed in 2012 and suddenly become famous in April 2016, when it scored 40

title: NEOSTEL
text: CCD cameras to view 45 square degrees of light entering the telescope aperture. The resolution is 1.5 arc seconds per pixel across the whole field of view. NEOSTEL The Near Earth Object Survey TELescope (NEOSTEL - also known as "Flyeye") is an astronomical survey and early-warning system for detecting near-Earth objects sized 40 m and above a few weeks before they impact Earth. NEOSTEL is an ESA funded project, starting with an initial prototype currently under construction at OHB in Milan. The telescope is of a new "fly-eye" design inspired by the wide field of vision from a fly's eye.

title: Hubble Space Telescope
text: in the early Universe approximately 280 million years older than stars HST now detects. The telescope is an international collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency since 1996, and is planned for launch on an Ariane 5 rocket. Although JWST is primarily an infrared instrument, its coverage extends down to 600 nm wavelength light, or roughly orange in the visible spectrum. A typical human eye can see to about 750 nm wavelength light, so there is some overlap with the longest visible wavelength bands, including orange and red light. A complementary telescope, looking at even

title: Astronomical seeing
text: such as the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer or Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope, but those can only be used on very bright stars. Starting in the 1990s, many telescopes have developed adaptive optics systems that partially solve the seeing problem. The best systems so far built, such as SPHERE on the ESO VLT and GPI on the Gemini telescope, achieve a Strehl ratio of 90% at a wavelength of 2.2 micrometers, but only within a very small region of the sky at a time. Another cheaper technique, lucky imaging, has had good results on smaller telescopes. This idea dates back

title: Eye to the Telescope (magazine)
text: Eye to the Telescope (magazine) Eye to the Telescope is a quarterly online journal of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, which publishes speculative poetry, including science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and poetry. It was established in 2011. It is a theme-based periodical with rotating editors. The first issue, in May 2011, had the theme "The Long and Short of Speculative Poetry," and featured both short poems, including haiku, tanka, and other short poems, contrasted with long poems. It was edited by Samantha Henderson and Deborah P Kolodji. Since then the journal's editors are selected by the current SFPA president and change with

title: Mount John University Observatory
text: camera. This is a 0.61m fork mounted reflecting telescope operating at f/16. This telescope is used exclusively for CCD photometry. It is currently being upgraded and commissioned for robotic use as part of the AAVSO's Robotic Telescope Network. This is the AAVSO's first Southern Hemisphere telescope. This telescope, used exclusively for visual tourist operations is a 0.4m Meade LX200 telescope. In June 2008 it was reported at the meeting of American Astronomical Society that using their new MOA-II telescope, the observatory discovered what is at the time the smallest planet known outside of our Solar System. The planet MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb is

title: NEOSTEL
text: NEOSTEL The Near Earth Object Survey TELescope (NEOSTEL - also known as "Flyeye") is an astronomical survey and early-warning system for detecting near-Earth objects sized 40 m and above a few weeks before they impact Earth. NEOSTEL is an ESA funded project, starting with an initial prototype currently under construction at OHB in Milan. The telescope is of a new "fly-eye" design inspired by the wide field of vision from a fly's eye. The design combines a single reflector with multiple sets of optics and CCDs, giving a very wide field of view (around 45 square degrees). When complete it

title: WorldWide Telescope
text: WorldWide Telescope WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is an open-source set of applications, data and cloud services, originally created by Microsoft Research but now an open source project hosted on GitHub. The .NET Foundation holds the copyright and the project is managed by the American Astronomical Society and has been supported by grants from the Moore Foundation and National Science Foundation. WWT displays astronomical, earth and planetary data allowing visual navigation through the 3-dimensional (3D) Universe. Users are able to navigate the sky by panning and zooming, or explore the 3D universe from the surface of Earth to past the Cosmic microwave

title: CfA 1.2 m Millimeter-Wave Telescope
text: CfA 1.2 m Millimeter-Wave Telescope The 1.2 meter Millimeter-Wave Telescope at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and its twin instrument at CTIO in Chile have been studying the distribution and properties of molecular clouds in our galaxy and its nearest neighbours since the 1970s. The telescope is nicknamed "The Mini" because of its unusually small size. At the time it was built, it was the smallest radio telescope in the world. Together, "The Mini" and its twin in Chile have obtained what is by far the most extensive, uniform, and widely used galactic survey of interstellar carbon monoxide. "The Mini"

title: Asteroid impact prediction
text: detecting nearby fast moving objects as well as excellent for larger slower objects that are currently further away. The Near Earth Object Survery TELescope (NEOSTEL) is an ESA funded project, starting with an initial prototype currently under construction. The telescope is of a new "fly-eye" design that combines a single reflector with multiple sets of optics and CCDs, giving a very wide field of view (around 45 square degrees). When complete it will have the widest field of view of any telescope and will be able to survey the majority of the visible sky in a single night. If the

title: Mount Wilson Observatory
text: a visible light adaptive optics system and later in 1997, it hosted the UnISIS, laser guide star adaptive optics system. As the use of the telescope for scientific work diminished again, a decision was made to convert it to use for visual observing. Because of the high position of the Cassegrain focus above the observing floor, a system of mirrors and lenses was developed to allow viewing from a position at the bottom of the telescope tube. With the conversion completed in 2014, the 2.5 meter telescope began its new life as the world's largest telescope dedicated to public use.

title: Nicholas Mayall
text: raise money for a new telescope once the war ended. At about this time, Sproul promised or secretly appointed C. Donald Shane as director of Lick, to take over when the war ended. The plan for a large telescope was leaked around September 1944 in the form of the University's budget proposals. Wright and Joseph H. Moore, interim wartime Lick director, imagined an or reflector based upon the funds proposed in the budget by Sproul. Mayall and Gerald E. Kron sent a letter to Sproul representing the younger Lick staff members, in which they requested a meeting to discuss the

title: Schmidt-Väisälä camera
text: view on 120x120 mm "film plates" giving a scale of 200 arc-seconds per millimeter. The guide telescopes are 180 mm diameter/2300 mm focal length and 80 mm diameter/1200 mm focal length refracting telescopes. The telescope was used over some 20 years to find 807 "minor planets" and 7 comets. Indeed, at the time its productivity was similarly compared to the rest of the world's minor planet hunters, and even rivals computerized searches from the 1990s and 2000s. Its surveys, according to one story, may have been intended to detect Earth-impacting asteroids. For this rather massive photographic survey work, Väisälä developed

title: Tunnel vision
text: shiny objects in the peripheral field. Binoculars, telescopes, and microscopes induce an experience of extreme tunnel vision due to the design of the optical components. A wide field microscope or telescope generally requires much larger diameter and thicker lenses, or complex parabolic mirror assemblies, either of which results in significantly greater cost for construction of the optical device. Wide-field binoculars are possible, but require bulkier, heavier, and more complex eyepieces. The diameter of the objective lenses is unimportant for field of view. The widest-angle eyepieces used in telescopes are so large that two would not fit side-by-side for use in

title: Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
text: square degree field of view, 100 times larger than that of the HST. The Coronagraphic Instrument is a high-contrast, small field-of-view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. The design of WFIRST is based on one of the proposed designs for the Joint Dark Energy Mission between NASA and DOE. WFIRST adds some extra capabilities to the original JDEM proposal, including a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing. In its present incarnation (2015), a large fraction of its primary mission will be focused on probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth

title: Adler Planetarium
text: launch experiments flown to heights above on high-altitude balloons. The program offers real world opportunities for students and the community to participate in science, mathematics, physics, and engineering challenges. Opened in 1977, the Doane Observatory is the largest aperture telescope available to the public in the Chicago area. With its diameter mirror, the Doane can gather over 5,000 times more light than an unaided human eye, allowing guests to see celestial objects like the Moon, planets, stars, and galaxies that are trillions of kilometers, if not many light years, away. The original telescope, a Cassegrain reflecting telescope built by the

title: Michael Benson (filmmaker)
text: 2009 and restored the space telescope for service until at least 2014 but probably many more years. More recently, Benson contributed a multi-media editorial to the "Sunday Review" section of the "New York Times" in an August 2013. Titled “Gorgeous-Glimpses of Calamity,” it used still images, video clips crafted from satellite images, and textual accompaniment to drive home the fact that many disturbing signs of climate change can be seen clearly from Earth orbit, including continent-wide jungle burn-offs, super-storms, and dense palls of smog obscuring the view of significant parts of India and China. The article remained on the paper's

title: Observatory Naef Épendes
text: light than the naked eye; the diameter of the eye's pupil is only 5 mm. In order to increase the stability of the instrument we have opted for a German mount. The electronic pilot automatically follows observed objects by compensating for the rotation of the Earth. Our NGC-Max guiding system contains the coordinates of thousands of objects and greatly helps with the aiming of the telescope. A mini planetarium, with seating for a dozen people, is used for initiating the general public into celestial mechanics : explanations as to the motion of stars and planets, the location of constellations, etc.