Singularity Observatory
Telescope Diving Through Solid Glass
by Humanoido
First Look: What happens when you take a telescope and look through a window, unopened, through all that nasty non-annealed, impure, bubble filled, non-optical, float glass? Is the image useful in any way? Can it be restored using computer image processing or is it a total loss; a blur of immeasurable proportions?
Setup
Few people know exactly what will happen so we decided to run an experiment using the largest telescope and a glass deck door, during daylight hours. The target was a tall skyscraper about a mile distant. The EP was just under an inch FL giving about 160x with a star diagonal which captured an image of the top part of the building.
Results
The image was flat and even to the edges with good color. While the average ocular produced achromatism around the edges, the image was evenly illuminated. However, no matter how careful one focussed the image, it would only remain a blur. It appeared IP would be relatively useless on the blurred image, though no cam pics were recorded at the time.
Conclusion
One needs to open the window for observing and not look through glass or the image will be blurred. In the future, it may be possible to process images taken through window glass to correct the distortions and aberrations.
