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I wonder if you could crowdsource this sort of project together with consumer equipment. You buy a telescope that meets certain requirements. You connect to th
by mabbo 4y ago
I wonder if you could crowdsource this sort of project together with consumer equipment.
You buy a telescope that meets certain requirements. You connect to the system. Whenever you aren't using it, the system is directing it as to where to look, and the imagery is transferred to the centralized service, where it's stitched together and processed.
I'll bet you could find enough universities, organizations, and enthusiastic amateurs to join such a system.
- arbitrage 4y agoIt already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
- irrational 4y agoThose are professional radio telescopes. OP was talking about amateur visible light telescopes.
- spaetzleesser 4y agoThese are the best and most expensive radio telescopes we have right now. Not exactly consumer grade.
- TrainedMonkey 4y agoTo build up on that idea - iOS/android app where people could snap photos of the night sky along with precise GPS coordinates and time. The app could direct people to point at some specific spot. Resolution of each photo would be subpar compared to each telescope, but maybe that is ok if you get a few millions of samples.
- dakr 4y agoFocusing on getting good detectors and optics in a great observing site is a more efficient use of resources than organizing, collecting, calibrating, troubleshooting, etc. a crowdsourced effort. Plus, I imagine the CMOS detectors they're talking about using are not cheap.