PlaneWave Telescopes - Astronomy For Everyone - Episode 128

[@andrewlabat9963]

What incredible pieces of engineering..

[@denispol79]

Watching this as same telescope at Siding Springs, Australia is catching some ancient photons for me.

[@classiccuisine7001]

PlaneWave Telescopes are the new Stienways of telescopes.

[@adamaj74]

Steinway's aren't that good. Google it.

[@andyvan5692]

interesting, but also at 4:34 thats where the laser goes, to weaponize it!!, or like a WW2 searchlight, where the bulb goes!

[@gregmckay666]

This show should have been titled, "Astronomy For Everyone with a Big Budget". 🤣🤣

[@AstronomyForEveryone]

Not always, you can observe te night sky with binoculars

[@qzorn4440]

sweet telescopes. How do they keep the open air optics clean? 😎 thanks.

[@AstronomyForEveryone]

Mostly they just use low pressure filtered dry air to blow off dust. Because of the focal optics the mirrors can get relatively dirty before they need to do a full cleaning that can be done with a liquid coating that's spread onto the mirrors then peeled off after it dries. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmXTmoigebaWetE

[@qzorn4440]

@@AstronomyForEveryone Thank you for the optics video.

[@geomatrix5452]

Awesome telescope technology! Very interesting and I can only dream of owning one of those... I did think the cabled microphone setup to do this video was a bit old fashioned! I mean, come on, wireless mics these days are NOT that expensive...

[@AstronomyForEveryone]

You're right, we didn't plan that right when we packed equipment for the remote shoot.

[@poly_hexamethyl]

5:30 Why do they use solid forks for the smaller models and support the altitude bearings on those stilts for the larger one? What's the tradeoff there?

[@alphaadhito]

As Rick on a video says that the fork mount is quite hard to adjust between the left and right fork. Thats why they developed the L series mount, which is basically a fork mount with just one support so you don't have to align between the fork. The PW1000 use trusses so that they can align the fork and epoxied/glued the trusses next so they would came out rigid and aligned. Also it's for weight reason of not mistaken as the trusses is carbon fiber.

[@kimberlymarkus6387]

If i only had the money haha

[@doramason]

I thought they were located in California.

[@AstronomyForEveryone]

They were but moved a couple of years ago here to Michigan. One of the biggest factors for their move was the bang for their buck on property. They have a nice, sprawling, multi building campus with room to grow now.

[@alfa0mega74]

old man is about to sleep

[@NGC7000]

You need to be a millionaire in order to own one of these scopes

[@anandarochisha]

Better get on that then..

[@helthuismartin]

Soo how much cost a 1 meter Plane Wave Telescope????

[@AstronomyForEveryone]

last I heard it was $750,000

[@TopLego777]

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[@niccoc1603]

Interesting video but my 6years old could do a better job with the camera

[@janedredding8870]

Too bad they make their telescopes with central obstructions nearly 50%. Can't be used visually and needs special imaging processing software to recover the image.

[@AstronomyForEveryone]

Actually the central obstruction does not produce an image with a hole in the center. It does not effect the field of view. it does decrease the light reaching the camera which in turn decreases contrast. This is offset by aperture

[@robertterrell3065]

@@AstronomyForEveryone Who the heck thinks it produces an image with a hole in the center?? Haha Like it's a telescope version of some sort of 8-track, with a hole in the songs? How in the world are 1/2 mil priced telescopes "astronomy for everyone"? Dobson is surely rolling in his grave laughing (hopefully) at that irony. The man who scavenged everything he could and ground his own mirrors from porthole glass, AND, invented the Dobsonian mount really brought astronomy to everyone, or am I just a fading relic of the past, like fades jeans, tie-died tshirts, and homebuilt telescopes that cost $250 and had apertures approaching light bucket size? I'm just whistljng in the dark I know. But what the heck. I am dazzled by PlaneWave machines, too!

[@utubevind]

@@robertterrell3065 Dobson was a legend. He has certainly introduced the hobby to many common folks. Those light buckets are very much used till date for Visual astronomy and thats going to continue in future too. But when it comes to EAA - Electronic assisted Astronomy whose main goal is for advanced scientific studies, Near earth object identification, Satellite debris tracking etc precision comes into play. Accurate instrumentation and fast tracking capabilities, camera gear, narrow band filters, spectrometry. Both are legends in their own realm.

[@TopLego777]

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