small telescope

Small telescope

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Synopsis: Space: Space generale: Telescopes: Telescope: Small telescope:

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It consists of 23 small telescopes mounted on a hemispherical dome that can rotate to track the sky.

Each small telescope has a 7 cm aperture and a field of view of a few hundred square degrees.

so that the fields of view of each of the small telescopes overlap to cover around 10,000 square degrees of sky simultaneously

The small telescopes themselves are simplessentially camera lenses sitting on top of CCD chips. Law and co have been experimenting with Canon 50mm and 85mm F/1. 2 lenses.

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