iPhone Pocket Telescope

IPHONE POCKET TELESCOPE

As put together by Humanoido in the new Astro Aeronautics Lab, the iPhone pocket telescope is designed as a small portable telescope that can shoot great images without a tripod or special mounting. This is accomplished using electronic and combined software image stabilization and the additional camera features of the new iPhone 6 Plus.

iPhone view with stock lens

The phone, telescope tube assembly, and telescope clip all fit easily into a pocket. The US$13 telescope is a barrel, with focus, that threads into a clip which attaches it to the iPhone.

The tube rotates with a scale from 3 meters to infinity. The iPhone provides auto focus which works well through the telescope.

The photos shown here are all from the unit hand held. Note the remarkable sharpness obtained as a product of the mobile phone and the lens quality.

Telescope view at 8x

The telescope, made of coated precision glass lenses, has 8x magnification at F1.1 and the iPhone has 3X zoom, giving EFL values ranging from 8 to 24X on a sliding scale. Astronomically speaking, this should be enough scale to detect rings around Saturn, cloud belts on Jupiter, the Galilean Moons, and great detail on the Earth's Moon. It will also be exceptionally handy for capturing special selected events like occultations of stars, planets, and moons plus solar and lunar eclipses. Note: solar eclipses will require the use of special heat absorbing and light absorbing features.

Our first test zeroed in on a spherical water tank off in the

The telescope at 24x using 3x zoom

distance. This was shot with the iPhone's normal camera lens, the telescope at its standard 8x and the phones 3x zoom. The round tank is visible approximately in the center of the photo.

The next photo shows the tank view at 8x through the telescope with no zoom. As the telescope is fitted, there is some vignetting though very slight near the edges. The depth of field is focused directly on the tank.

The telescope view at 24x using the Apple camera zoom is remarkable for a hand held image, showing sharpness. The camera cost NT$398 and was missing the tripod and the mobile phone mount. This prompted the discovery of the telescope to function well in a hand held mode.

In the future, the telescope and camera pair will be paced during the first clear nights when the Moon and brighter planets are visible.

Space Recycler Telescope SRT

SPACE RECYCLER TELESCOPE 

The new SRT Recycler Telescope uses free recycled parts - and its level of simplicity can return surprising results!
 
If you’ve kept up with the progression of telescopes created and conducted by the Big Brain machine program initiative to explore space, you’ve see increasingly large, massive, and complex telescopes constructed with levels of mind boggling advanced controls, delivering breath-taking results beyond belief.

These telescopes, worth up to trillions of dollars, are built under the auspices of the Big Brain Machine Initiative with great development time invested, and they operate with clever often complicated techniques. Their scientific instruments often return many new discoveries about the Universe and beyond. However, the telescopes may be complicated, and likely will not have much simplification as their exploratory capacity levels and add-ons increase exponentially over time. The SRT, or Space Recycler Telescope, is a somewhat simple version of these more complicated telescopes. Currently the most powerful telescope in the continuing series is the GGT Gargantuan Gravatomic Telescope.

We all know there are tons of space items floating around in space. These are mostly used, spent, decrepid, decayed, broken space probes that have lost their life, expended their supply of coolant, moved past their targets, crashed into planets and moons, stopped functioning with dead batteries, became broken due to unresolvable anomalies, crashed their programs, failed to reach intended targets, and simply reached the end of their life spans. The SRT is capable of recycling this space equipment into a new telescope and produce new gains from their demise.

The SRT generally will use just one Adjunct and its data sets will be more time dependent, so the telescope will focus the attention on what to observe and when to observe. This SRT is the most simple telescope in the series - remaining powerful, it can have an aperture diameter exceeding the largest Earth-based telescopes. It has the most basic controls and the most simple operations. To keep things simple, telescope linking is unary and the process of data mining is fundamental. Refer to the Face Plate showing control icons.

The SRT is the ninth powerful telescope in the series created by the Big Brain Space Exploring Initiative. 

1) ULT - Ultra Large Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/03/nult-new-ultra-large-telescope-home.html
2) NULT - New Ultra Large Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-ultra-large-telescope-nult.html
3) GT - Genius Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/06/gt-genius-telescope.html
4) PGT - Paradigmic Genius Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2012/09/paradigmic-gt-telescope.html
5) MGT - Molecular Genius Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/10/big-brains-new-paradigmic-molecular.html
6) PGT-ET - Paradigmic Genius Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2013/03/pgt-telescope-new-look.html
7) PDT - Power Dynamic Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-telescope-announcement.html
8) GGT - Gargantuan Gravatomic Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/05/next-telescope.html
9) SRT - Space Recycler Telescope
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/05/novel-space-junk-telescope.html

Tiny Telescope for Near Space

Telescope photo showing the Moon

TINY TELESCOPE FOR NEAR SPACE FLIGHT
The next Near Space flight will carry a small telescope up into the fringes of space, and will be capable of imaging planned celestial objects during the day and night. The first time telescope will be equipped with a battery operated CCD camera imager capable of single integration color or black and white at ISO 28,000 or more.

NODAL POINTS

Short term integration

The initial tests will be unguided, i.e. accepting the motions of the spacecraft. We will study the best spacecraft orientations for particular telescopic data collecting and imaging with the greatest points of stability and least angular rotation and linear motion.

This will occur at nodal points established during the flight.

IMAGE STABILIZER
The telescope will include an Image Stabilizer to reduce imaging motion and produce more clear and less trailed images.

Solar imaging

PIXELS
With over 10 million pixels, the telescope can produce fine resolution shots.

CCD
This is an electronic telescope with a built in CCD Charge Coupled Device.
 
TIMED INTEGRATIONS
The telescope is equipped to do integrations of up to 15 seconds to capture faint objects and possible star fields during flight. Solar integrations can be as short as 1/1,600th of a second.

FOCAL LENGTH

Atmospheric effects

The small telescope is variable at f/2 to F/4.9 with a focal length from 28mm to 105mm. Part of the telescope is electronic, thus capable of FL modification.

MONITOR
A 3-inch color monitor is attached to the telescope for focus, framing and viewing in various modes.

Storage Media

STORAGE

Deep Sky M57 on storage

iPhone 5 support with Siri AI

Free iPhone app supplements telescope data

Image storing is available in the following formats: RAW 3648 x 2736, JPEG 3648 x 2736, JPEG 2816 x 2112, JPEG 1600 x 1200, JPEG 640 x 480, JPEG 3648 x 2048, JPEG 2816 x 1584, JPEG 1920 x 1080, JPEG 640 x 360, JPEG 3648 x 2432, JPEG 2816 x 1880, JPEG 1600 x 1064, JPEG 640 x 424, JPEG 2736 x 2736, JPEG 2112 x 2112, JPEG 1200 x 1200, JPEG 480 x 480, JPEG 2192 x 2736, JPEG 1696 x 2112, JPEG 960 x 1200, JPEG 384 x 480.

M1 integration

HIGH TECH TELESCOPE
The high technology telescope supports HD recording and uses a folded lens design. This is specifically designed for Near Space flight and has low profile compacted folded dimensions of approximately 4-inches x 2 x  1. The folding design extends another one inch to the 1-inch dimension. It can do continuous auto timed repeated imaging at about 2 FPS running on Lithium Ion batteries. Images are saved to a multi media card which can be retrieved after the flight.

SUPPORT
Small telescopes can be supported with iPhone 5 functions, including the built in talk-to artificial intelligence SIRI when the sound environment is relatively quiet.

Venus Meets 101

SPECTACULAR VIEWS OF VENUS AT TAIPEI 101

THE CONTINUING  SAGA OF THE VENUS JUPITER ALDEBARAN CONJUNCTION AT 101

Photo 1 - Panorama

Photo 2 - Wide View

Friday July 27th 2012 

Photo 3 - Zoom

Photo 1 The panoramic view in photo 1 was shot in the early morning of July 27th, 2012 at 3:22:06 am, with a Canon Powershot S95 at 1 second exposure (2 EV) with a 28mm f/2 lens and ISO 1,600 shows a rich field of celestial sky objects - from top: the Pleiades star cluster, the planet Jupiter, the Hyades star cluster, Aldebaran in the constellation Taurus the Bull, Capella in the constellation Auriga. Note the position of very bright Venus to the immediate right of Taipei 101. Click on the photo to see the full panorama. 

Photo 2 The next photo shows a wide view shot in portrait format obtained earlier at 3:20:12 am. These first two images were at 1080 x 1920 1.2MB and screen shot for reduction.


Photo 3 The zoom is highly detailed at f/4... and perhaps the most dramatic with Jupiter, Aldebaran, and Venus poised immediately next to Taipei 101 (at the right side aboub 3/4th of the way towards the top).

Jupiter Venus Conjunction Widens

JUPITER VENUS CONJUNCTION WIDENS

Along with more stars and the return of another UFO!

All observations made at Humanoido Lab Number 50.

Wednesday July 25th 2012 3:53:18 am

Clear skies returned this morning to reveal the stunning Jupiter Venus Aldebaran conjunction above the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

The event was double spectacular as another UFO buzzed the surrounding sky for a short time. This time, the UFO made a wide sweeping pass and did not appear to land behind the Skyscraper 101 as some UFOs did in the past. It's believed some type of landing strip is located there, although it was confirmed that the conventional airport is located in another direction.
 

The earlier time at 3:53:18 revealed a darker sky and more stars, thus showing constellations Taurus the Bull and Auriga with the bright star Capella (to the left) more clearly. The small cluster of stars located about three fourths of the way toward the top is the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters. In the photo with trailed star images, clearly the elongation of the UFO follows the path of a different angle.

The favorite imaging settings for this type of view are Program, ISO 1,600, 2 EV, f/2, no zoom, 1-second exposure, 1064 x 1600 727K image format with AWB in JPEG setting. A 28mm lens was used for this hand held shot. The first photo does not show the UFO.

The second image shows the UFO located directly above the 101 Tower. It appears elongated or saucer shaped on its North-bound trek. Numerous images were obtained showing the object moving across the sky.


 

Photos have no guiding from the hand-held camera. To capture these images, the author must hang out of the skyscraper several hundred feet above the open ground to avoid the building obstruction to the south. The entire process is a bit risky but result in very good images. Pieces of the this obstruction are visible in some photos at the right side.

The third photograph shows the unidentified object changing position again, moving from right to left. This shows the elongation of the object most clearly as the stars are not trailed. Photos were pre-processed with Apple iPhoto using enhancements: Exposure, Definition, Sharpness, and De-noise. The fourth photo shows another UFO change in position towards the North.

The final photo shows an enlargement of the UFO with saucer shape and a plume appearance directly to the top. The visual view of the craft exhibited some noted red color lights at times, not seen here in this photo.

07.20.2012 Venus Conjunction Sky Map Experiment

Above right: Taipei 101, Jupiter, Venus, Capella in Taurus

July 20, 2012 Venus Jupiter Conjunction Sky Map Experiment

Constellation Auriga with bright star Capella

Friday morning was clear enough to capture Venus Jupiter conjunction and the most stars ever photographed in the early morning dawn sky. This experiment shows that a simple hand held camera shooting a very clear sky at high ISO ratings can create a "downtown" star map from a heavily light polluted high density populated city. This 1 second exposed (2 EV) image was taken at 4:20:06 am with settings of f/2, a 28mm lens, and ISO 1,600. No UFOs were seen during the sequence of observations. Enough stars are seen to clearly define the constellations. This view is screen captured from the original 1064 x 1600 pixel image. The star map is rotated to match the actual view of the constellation Auriga and the brightest star Capella, in the photo to the left of the Taipei 101 skyscraper. The photo shows the Pleiades star cluster, Venus, Jupiter, Aldebaran in the Hyades star cluster, and the constellation Auriga with the bright star Capella. A PowerShot Canon S95 CCD camera was used to obtain the sequential images in this study. The camera eye is recording numerous stars not seen to the naked eye view. To conduct a program of creating the aforementioned sky maps, a simple tripod is recommended. It may also be possible to go deeper on the exposure and this deserves continued experimentation. The Lab 50 is obstructed by a brick structure on the South, so for an all sky mapping project another lab is recommended, like Area 51 atop the skyscraper.

Moon Venus Dual Light Source

MOON VENUS CAPTURE

THE DUAL LIGHT SOURCE PROJECT

This same field conjunction image shows the planet Venus and the Moon together - exposed to reveal Moon light reflected from the Sun and from the Earth (earthshine), along with Venus light reflected from the Sun. The photo was imaged in telescope mode with a 1 second exposure (EV at 2) at ISO 1,600. The 28mm lens was zoomed (6-22.5mm) at f/4.9. Taken July 15th Sunday 2012 at 4:21:49 am local Taipei time. The combined digital plus optical zoom equaled 15X.

ULT Accumulator Invented

PROPELLER POWERED BIG BRAIN
THIS SPECTACULAR ULT ACCUMULATOR INVENTION ENABLES A VAST TELESCOPE EXPANSION!
The ULT Accumulator stores the energy of the potential image at one focal point. This potential is a latent image accumulated or collected and can be summed, saved, released, engaged, and/or utilized at a current or future time.

Historical Gemini Control included an Accumulator

ULT's First Accumulator

The first Accumulator works well for minimal time dependent objects and is designed primarily for objects in the Universe with slower rates of calculus. The calculus rate of change must approach a minimum time from one accumulated data point to the next. Though, the calculus is based on the speed of the Telescope.

Conceptual Design
The ULT Accumulator is unlike the historical Gemini Spacecraft which contained an Accumulator in its design. The ULT's device does employ the processing power of computers but its different by design. The idea adds time to the equation of space.

Telescope Speed

As the Telescope speed increases, the accumulator can work with increasing faster objects, so there is great advantage into having a very fast telescope, fast in terms of processing power. This is one area where the Propeller Powered Big Brain excels and can be more incorporated into the process. In this reference the speed of a telescope does not refer to light gathering power or focal ratio or F# but rather an actual speed or passage of events time parameter. The equation R*T = D (R = Rate, T = time, D = Distance) is in effect for some parameters while others are strictly event based.

Collecting Time

The ULT Accumulator can function as a device that collects time. Each object in space is collected by a span of time. Singular objects can have multiple time collected in its interest.

Saving Time on a Hard Drive

Collected object time can be stored on TB drives for later use by the Accumulator.

Compressing Time for Later Time Expansion

Drive routines can compress the collected time and store time in less space. Later when needed, the time can be expanded to normal space.

Time Blur & Changing Events
As an event changes, its rate of change is applied to the ruler of time. The time frame of the ULT Accumulator must not exceed the resolution of time in a single accumulation point or a time blur will result.

Affecting Multiple Adjuncts

Part of the ULT Accumulator is software driven and involves the use of TB data storage devices. It’s an instrumental key to developing and finalizing data for one or more Adjuncts. In particular, it enables the combining of multiple Adjuncts, enabling a revolutionary way to enhance and increase telescope size and capabilities. It makes possible vast increases in ULT Telescope resolution and diameter never before possible.

New Terms
ULT Accumulator
Collected Time
Time Blur
Saved Time 
Object Calculus
TB Data Storage Device
Expanding Time
Object Time
Fast Telescope
Latent Image

Credits
NASA image
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.html

NULT Telescope Image Portfolio Album

IMAGE PORTFOLIO ALBUM

CREATED FOR THE NEW ULTRA LARGE TELESCOPE

This introduces the first page of new images taken by the 24-meter New Ultra Large Telescope - credits: Humanoido, the Big Brain Project, the ULT Space Administration, Deep Space Center DSC, and NASA. First, links will be established and then photos added to the album. This information originates from the Big Brain's new Deep Space Center, DSC.

MINIBLOG - WOW WHAT A GREAT JOURNEY the ULT Telescope has, as of March 30th, 2012, traveled to four planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Kepler, and Pluto), a Black Hole, Moon, Sun, Globular Star Cluster, Galaxy (Andromeda), the Coldest Place in the Universe, and the Edge of the Universe, for a total of 13 images.

Imaging Dates, Blogs, Links
(in chronological order)

022712 Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe 

030112 Black Hole

030212 Andromeda Galaxy
030312 Lunar Rover
030412 Kepler 22B
030512 Jupiter Great Red Spot GRS 

030712 Pluto
032012 Telescope Arm Reaches for End of the Universe (Blockage) 
032412 ULT Coldest Place in the Universe
032812 ULT Saturn Rings Journey
032812 ULT Increase in Size & Resolution (Star Test) 
032912 ULT Deep Stellar Abyss Reveal 
033012 ULT Sun Flare 

Photos, Links

(in chronological order)

Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe
Black Hole
Andromeda Galaxy
Lunar Rover
Kepler 22B
Jupiter Great Red Spot GRS
Pluto
Blockage
Coldest Place in the Universe 

Saturn's Rings
Star Test 
Deep Stellar Abyss
Dangerous Sun Flare

 Thumbnails (in no particular order)

GALAXIES AT EDGE OF UNIVERSE

BLACK HOLE

KEPLER 22B

SUN'S FLARE

JUPITER GREAT RED SPOT

PLUTO

SATURNIAN ROCKS

STAR TEST

ANDROMEDA GALAXY

DEEP STELLAR ABYSS

MOON ROVER

BLOCKAGE

NULT Telescope Kepler 22b

NULT TELESCOPE AND KEPLER 22B

As part of the NULT New Ultra Large Telescope Pointing Suggestion Program, a request to find and image a remote planet outside of our solar system was made. The NULT Telescope was pointed at the coordinates of the remote planet Kepler 22b and this is the result. This is a direct optical image that does not use any techniques of interferometry and is open to study and interpretation. However, it gainfully utilizes the Universe Penetrator in the wide open 10X mode. One may create a method yardstick for the measurement of life on the planet. Thanks to Dave Hein for this telescope pointing suggestion. "Humanoido, could you point NULT at Kepler-22b? It's an earth-like planet (at) 600 light-years away. It's orbit is in the middle of the habitable zone around its sun, and you might be able to detect some evidence of life there."