{"id":15050,"date":"2017-10-11T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15050"},"modified":"2017-10-11T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:48:58","slug":"new-telescope-with-light-amplification-brings-galaxies-nebulae-asteroids-etc-into-bright-sharp-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15050","title":{"rendered":"New telescope with light amplification brings galaxies, nebulae, asteroids, etc into bright sharp images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unistellaroptics.com\/en\/\">Unistellar<\/a>\u00a0is developing a small telescope called the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/unistellaroptics.com\/en\/product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evScope<\/a>\u00a0that includes an active light amplification system that greatly brightens and sharpens images:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Turn the Amplified Vision ON and the system will start to accumulate light from the objects you are viewing all the while projecting it directly into the eyepiece of the telescope: the image is progressively intensified and in a matter of seconds colors and shapes of galaxies and nebulae, invisible in normal telescopes, will appear. Turn Field Recognition ON and the system will recognize and name the objects in the field !<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kkzgKpkGzic?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More about the evScope in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/new-telescope-gives-back-the-sky-to-city-dwellers\/\">New Telescope &#8220;Gives Back the Sky&#8221; to City-Dwellers &#8211; Scientific American Blog Network<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Called the \u201ceVscope\u201d (pronounced Ee-Vee Scope) for short, Unistellar\u2019s product outwardly appears to be just a typical 4.5-inch Newtonian reflector\u2014a simple small telescope that, along with its tripod, easily fits inside a backpack. But a peek through its eyepiece reveals the eVscope\u2019s power: Using a proprietary system of sensors, optics and specialized software, the telescope can amplify and display the accumulated light from a faint target over time, stacking up and processing hundreds of images to correct for instrumental jitter and smeared exposures to build up vivid, sharp views that rival those from far larger and more expensive equipment. And, as Marchis intends to show with his demonstration from a Brooklyn graveyard, the technology even works under poor viewing conditions\u2014such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\/Starfest-Central-Park-Urba-Astronomy-All\">in and around New York City<\/a>, where the glare of city lights is so oppressive that even on clear nights one can practically count on fingers and toes all the stars visible to the naked eye. (The technology works so well, in fact, that Unistellar\u2019s eVscope has managed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicdiary.org\/fmarchis\/2017\/09\/17\/seeing-pluto-with-your-own-eyes-from-your-backyard-with-unistellars-evscope\/\">capture and display images of faraway Pluto<\/a>\u00a0in its eyepiece as a dim and distant dot hanging in the light-polluted skies over Marseilles, France, and San Francisco.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The evScope is sensitive enough for amateurs to do real science with it. The company plans to encourage citizen science projects with the device:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Through a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seti.org\/seti-institute\/press-release\/unistellar-unveils-consumer-enhanced-vision-telescope-ifa-2017\">partnership<\/a>\u00a0with the SETI Institute, eVscope users will have the option of automatically uploading their observations to an online database for use by amateur and professional astronomers alike. \u201cWe\u2019ll build it up slowly, with a thousand eVscopes providing millions of frames for any given region of sky that can be combined to get good signal to noise,\u201d Marchis says. \u201cWe could use it to search for Earth-threatening asteroids and comets, stellar occultations, supernovae, variable stars; maybe even things we can scarcely imagine\u2014a flash of light, a laser pulse from another cosmic civilization? Who knows what we might find\u2014it\u2019s not like we have been observing the sky continuously at these magnitudes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unistellaroptics.com\/en\/product\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15051\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=15051\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11.png\" data-orig-size=\"1433,1812\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"EvScope\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11-810x1024.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15051\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11-810x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11-810x1024.png 810w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11-237x300.png 237w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11-768x971.png 768w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/EvScope_v11.png 1433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUnistellar plans to begin selling the evScope in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-DIcb5wNxdQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=electronics&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=050b1c5bff318dda1f344463c2bc2099&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company\u00a0Unistellar\u00a0is developing a small telescope called the\u00a0evScope\u00a0that includes an active light amplification system that greatly brightens and sharpens images: Turn the Amplified Vision ON and the system will start to accumulate light from the objects you are viewing all the while projecting it directly into the eyepiece of the telescope: the image is progressively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New telescope with light amplification brings galaxies, nebulae, asteroids, etc into bright sharp images<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3UK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15532,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15532","url_meta":{"origin":15050,"position":0},"title":"ESO: &#8220;Glory from Gloom&#8221; &#8211; new hi-res views of Lupus 3 dark nebula","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest report from the ESO (European Southern Observatory): Glory From Gloom A dark cloud of cosmic dust snakes across this spectacular wide field image, illuminated by the brilliant light of new stars. 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