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what do you think a bout put telescope in location far from

Post by cohen avshalom » Wed Nov 07, 2007 7:07 pm

what do you think a bout put telescope in location far from earth in space that could examing one point from several point-mobile telescope
or this is wild idea ??????

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Post by Nereid » Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:30 pm

cohen avshalom wrote:what do you think a bout put telescope in location far from earth in space that could examing one point from several point-mobile telescope
or this is wild idea ??????

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This has already been done, many times.

After all, all space probes with imaging devices could be called 'telescopes', and by definition they are 'far from earth'.

The telescope that has sent back images from the furthest distance from Earth is probably Voyager 1, with its 'family portrait'.

STEREO is a pair of spacecraft that are both far from Earth. They are designed to study the Sun, so they seem to fit your 'examing one point from several point-mobile telescope' criterion well. Here is a recent image from STEREO B, of the Sun and the Moon!

However, for deep space imaging, nothing beats the Hubble Space Telescope (yet), though it's not all that far from Earth.

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Post by BMAONE23 » Thu Nov 08, 2007 8:31 pm

I think Cohen is suggesting Hubble style telescopes that might orbit at L1, L2, & L5 per-say that would be focusable in tandem

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Post by craterchains » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:02 pm

or, , , it is being asked if a "mobile telescope" would be feasable.

Yes, as long as Nereid pays the fuel bill. :lol:
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