United Space Technologies: June 2019

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Space1 Lunar South Polar Results

Around the Moon in 80 Minutes - SPACE1

Lunar South Pole Mission Results

SPACE1 processing Orthographic projection image - Moon’s South Polar region constructed from data returned by the Lunar South Polar Mission to the Moon.

Astronaut Humanoido's high tech Moon mission was 80 minutes long - a reference alluding to Jules Verne adventure novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.

SPACE1 Industries' modern take is a true story, based on high space technology in the 21st Century that has taken astronaut Humanoido around the southern portion of the Moon in 80 minutes. The processed data presented here is rich in information for humanities' return to the Moon. Images are combined and step processed to create a larger view of the Moon's south pole region. The color image represents the thermionic heat signature of craters. The cube represents the projection of the south polar region, homogeneously fit onto the faces of this dimension.

The south polar lunar region has very interesting craters of which the low obique sunlight can either fill a shallow crater or never reach the floor of a deep one. The deepest craters that never receive sunlight have undoubtedly preserved the primordial pristine conditions of the lunar surface, including deposition of water from ancient comets. It's for this reason we are interested in the south polar region of the Moon, for the grand step of humanity, an outpost on the Moon, a telescope base kept in eternal darkness, water for human survival, energy and rocket fuel, colonization, mining, and exploration.

Saturday, June 29, 2019

Space1 Lunar South Polar Orbiter Mission Results

Humanoido and rocket drive

SPACE1 Lunar South Polar Orbiter Mission Results Sets New Records!
Space1 delivers. Back to the Moon in 2019! Fantastic celebration continues into the night over at the Pacific Ocean SPACE1 Mission Control for Rocketry and Space Sciences, with the grand success of SPACE1 Industries Lunar Polar Orbiter Mission!

Breaking News! Thurs., April 4th, 2019
SPACE1 Global News Agency reports..

The manned mission to the South Pole of the Moon was an applauded great success on Sunday, March 31st, 2019. The fantastic Moon technical fly-by was achieved by Astronaut Humanoido and the Electrodynamic Safety Rocket with the extremely reliable Electromag drive. Raw data is processed by the SPACE1 Pacific Ocean Space Processing Laboratory and the Center for Spacecraft Data Analysis.

During mission analysis, color is handled by the interferometric color machine and applied to the raw data. Raw data is processed and presented in 1) raw, 2) film, 3) disk, 4) photo and 5) 3d cube. Processing of scientific mission’s raw data helps create many useful analytical Moon sets - spectromagnetic radiative reference maps of thermal iridescence excitability ions, forward viewing temperature heat maps, lunar reflective albedo detail extractions, latent hydroxil distribution with predicated water mapping analysis, and finite shaded relief area mapping.

— The Asiatic Center for SPACE1 Advanced Space Sciences broke out the rare vintage Ming Dynasty brandy cache for celebrating the spectacular event! —

Data and analysis returned from the mission is rich in detail for future landing programs, establishing lunar colonies, mining on the Moon, generating rocket fuel, and conducting Moon activities such as touring and vacationing. The data is highly useful towards developing and testing high technology flight parametrics for the upcoming Manned Moon Landing by SPACE1 Industries.

— SPACE1 Industries: 1st to fly an astronaut to the Moon in many decades! —

The SPACE1 Lunar South Pole Orbiter is Electrodynamic Rocket Mission E15 with the Electro Mag Drive. Previous manned EM rocket mission E14 took place Tuesday, March 12th, 2019. This mission also tests a completely new high tech lunar lander camera and various new techniques for processing the data. The presented SPACE1 data formats are in film reel, image disk, proportional photo, sequential cube, and raw image.

Friday, June 28, 2019

Space1 Lunar Orbiter Flyby Cube

Moon Cube
from the SPACE1 Lunar Polar Orbiter Flyby

This is a Space1 processed result with photos from the lunar orbiter flyby put on the three facing sides of a three dimensional cube.

Processing at the Pacific Ocean SPACE1 Space Processing Lab & Center for Spacecraft Data Analysis.

All six photos are a sequential part of the Moon South Pole flyby and hold additional detail that can be extracted by processing and reconstruction.

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Space1 Lunar Polar Orbiter First Photo

Lunar Polar Orbiter First Photo

SPACE1's first Lunar Polar Orbiter mission is underway and yesterday began returning raw signal data from the southern polar region of the Moon.

This is the first photo returned from the high tech adventure around the Moon, which is a semi processed lunar image that has received the first level of processing.

In days to follow, more images are scheduled be released. Photos show the great success of the project and include views from the raw data disk, and other data depicting the color analysis of cratered regions with heat and/or water. There are many reasons for going to the polar lunar region, including looking for habitable locations with water inside craters that could facilitate lunar outposts, colonies, mining complexes, and cities inside craters under domes. The refinement processing of the data may find lava tubes for habitation. This is an important precursor mission before landing a man on the Moon.

The SPACE1 Lunar Polar Orbiter is Electrodynamic Rocket Mission E15 with the Electro Mag Drive. Previous manned EM rocket mission E14 took place Tuesday, March 12th, 2019. This mission tests a completely new camera and techniques for processing the images. The presented SPACE1 data formats are in film reel, image disk, proportional photo, sequential cube, and raw image.

Space1 Electrodynamic EM Rocket Launch E14
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-electrodynamic-rocket-mission-e14.html

Space1 Electrodynamic EM Rocket Launch Index
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-index-em-rocket-launches.html

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Space1 Lunar Polar Orbiter Launched

Lunar Polar Orbiter Mission Launched

News Alert - March 31, 2019

SPACE1 News Agency reports the Lunar Polar Orbiter Mission has launched and reached the South Pole of the Moon successfully and is returning telemetry lunar data which appears good. Updates including imagery from the spacecraft will appear here shortly. Stay tuned!

SPACE1, the private space industry, is planning a series of lunar missions culminating with a manned lunar landing. The SPACE1 Lunar Polar Orbiter

Mission is the first of a series of missions to the Moon. Successful data returned is being analyzed for the next mission.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Space1 Far Side Moon Mission Bumped

Russian Luna-3 photo

Moon Far Side Mission Bumped
SPACE1 has bumped the Moon Far Side Mission off the 2019 schedule for several reasons:

1) More time is needed for the Manned Moon Landing
2) Lunar Orbiter Flyby makes Far Side Missions unnecessary
3) More time is needed for the Moon to have proper orbital alignments
4) Parts are delayed from California

Now that the Moon Polar Orbital Flyby is a great success, SPACE1 will focus on two more missions - the ceremonial mission to Ptolemaeus, Alphonsus, Arzachel crater array and the Manned Moon Landing. The Moon Far Side mission can happen in the future, perhaps 2022, to get a look at the China probe, see craters the Russian spacecraft photographed, and to supplement the USA lunar farside program. On the other hand, SPACE1 is seriously thinking about a quick & dirty manned landing on the far side of the Moon. It would be a spartan private space industry first as no human has ever walked on the far side of the Moon!

Monday, June 24, 2019

Moon Landing Update

Moon by Humanoido

Moon Landing is Updated
When will we see Boots on the Moon?

Work and excitement is rapidly progressing at SPACE1 towards the high technology Manned Moon Landing Mission. The mission is dependent on several other mission completions and these have some requirements to be met. SPACE1 is scheduled to host the first manned return mission in 2019 to the Moon since Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan left the surface of the Moon 47 years ago. In this endeavor, SPACE1 appears to be at the top of the group for a scheduled first to reach the Moon ahead of NASA and ahead of private industry SpaceX, Boeing, Blue origin, and Lockheed Martin. SPACE1 has worked six years on the project and excited followers of the private space industry are looking forward to seeing results in their lifetime!

Parts Aquisition
Apparently the parts supplier put parts on backorder, after specifying parts were available, and while the lunar missions can be accomplished without the parts, it would be much better to include the new constructed modules and components. This is now a priority.

Camera Lunar Landing Imaging
While several Moon cameras are now available at SPACE1 Labs, work needs to begin on the primary mission camera. All the components are available for the primary mission camera. As a backup insurance policy, purchasing will go out this week to review new off the shelf cameras ready to be installed onto the spacecraft so as not to miss the timeline.

— We cast our line of technology into the ocean of space, catching the greatest wonders in the Universe — Humanoido

Prerequisite Lunar Missions
It's still very important to initiate and complete the lunar missions prior to the Moon landing. The includes the A) Commemorative Mission, B) Polar Orbiter Mission, C) Far Side Mission, and finally D) Lunar Landing. The one mission in question is the Far Side Mission because it requires a more specialized launch window to become available. It's possible the Lunar Polar Orbiter Mission will be pushed to the number one position and happen first because the parameter calculations are now simplified and ready to go.

Astronaut & Spacesuit
Astronaut Humanoido is prepared and trained for the mission, and will continue to prepare with instrumentation and setup plus rehearsals up to the launch date. Last minute ideas and flight conveniences are being incorporated into the Lunar Landing Mission spacesuit, primarily work with the helmet complexity.

Space Helmet design
Humanoido has designed a system to simultaneous compliment the lunar landing mission through a special space helmet that allows it to generate wireless transmission telemetry and automatically record the entire mission as it unfolds. When an astronaut looks in a direction, the flight telemetry will record that direction. This will happen with new electronic digital media lasting the entire duration of the Moon landing mission. If all goes according to plan, the mission will play back on computers equipped with playback devices at Mission Control and therefore snippets of the best part of the mission will concatenate and post to news sources.

Singularity Observatory Participation
Singularity Observatory is taking part in the pre-mission by telescopic lunar surveys and mapping the lunar topology in search of a suitable landing site. This is based on lunar regolith temperature, popularity of the site, accessibility, the shape and type of lunar terrain, and the analysis of landing parameters. Two or more telescopes will be used for the surveys and the results will be combined.

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Space1 Index Moon

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Space1 Autonomy Missions

Bare Bones Autonomy Missions are Totally Effective
At SPACE1, the bare bones approach to missions, space flights, and Mission Control is somewhat spartan compared to the trillions and billions of dollars lavishly invested by NASA and SpaceX.

This is in part due to the nature of the way SPACE1 travel unfolds in space & time, and the autonomy and scaling of advanced systems deployed. For example, one Space Augment can perhaps do the job of 50 astronauts and systems. Autonomy includes Mission Control, Rocket X and EM flight dynamics, and multitasking performed by Augments.

In the pursuit of overall effective technology, the sum effect is less man hours per mission, less investment in routine and mundane equipment, resulting in a much lower net operating cost. This brings down the cost per space mission and allows an increase in the number of missions and makes space tourism and space exploration more affordable and ultimately safe. SPACE1 is planning, as a next step, to open up the door to routine missions to the Moon and Moon landings.

Friday, June 21, 2019

Singularity Observatory Moon Image Scale Experiments

The Moon - Experimenting with Image Scale & iPhone
One interesting part of astro imaging the Moon is image scale. With telescope and iPhone camera, which has two camera lenses, one can choose a 1x wide angle lens, 2x telephoto lens or simply vary the EP and FR lens combinations.

Be sure to move the camera to center the Moon relative to the axis of the lens used. This method is afocal. This method works well and even by introducing an additional 6 lenses into the optical train, any reflections are eliminated by camera position.

The quick and dirty examples are shown to demonstrate image scale, taken without a camera mount and without a lunar drive to follow the Moon. The curvature at the bottom of the moon is caused by the restrictive FOV and gives an idea of image scale. Both images are taken with an iPhone XS Max, March 27th, 2019 up to 1am local time.

The first image is 1/79th second exposure. The second image is captured with the same 4.25mm F1.8 lens at ISO400 and 1/40th second exposure. The image scale was converted by the changing configurations of EP and FR. When a camera mount and drive are used, the image scale can be increased dramatically by eliminating the FR and selecting a different EP of shorter FL. Tracking will allow still greater EFL and the use of a 2x or greater Barlow lens. A 14-inch Celestron EdgeHD telescope was used for all experiments during hazy and cloudy conditions. IP compensation removed light pollution, fog, haze and clouds. The first image is converted to BW while the second image shows color through haze - in both instances the Moon showed the effects of atmospheric dispersion being relatively close to the horizon. The telescope was indoors shooting through an R Sky Zone which can be seen at the links.

Indoor Observing Links
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory-indoor.html

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory_20.html

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Space1 High Speed Plane

High Speed Plane
As drones are slow pokes when it comes to the speed of rockets, SPACE1 is examining taking on a new division of high speed planes to play catch up with new rocket launches within the aerodynamic framework of sky boundaries leading up to space.

High speed dynamic wireless and/or piloted planes with designs such as the Hypered Elemental One (HEO) are in the works.

The new craft division will introduce a quarry of planes to the SPACE1 Flight Dynamics Division that support rockets on their initial journey through the Troposphere. The HEO is equipped with multiple high speed forward looking cameras to examine rocket missions during their upward aerodynamic leg of the journey. As the HEO is capable of climbing and diving, along with split second maneuvering, it can cover many angles of mission exposure for analysis of flight dynamics. The HEO is expected to supplement the aircraft division which already contains around 50 drones, SPACE1 Space Planes, and Delta Wing Flyer return vehicles. With development of concurrent lunar missions in 2019 and the ramping up of Mars missions in 2020, the HEO may receive a variable delegation of developmental assignments as time progresses. The high speed vehicle HEO pilot will use reality augmentation to fly the vehicles.

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Space1 Next Great Era in Space

Humanoido: developing the most powerful and advanced space species Asvatar in SPACE1 history

The Next Great Era in Space - Augmentation

Thursday March 28, 2018
by Humanoido

Today we are on the cusp of the next great era of the human species in space exploration. More will change in the near future than in the past 50 years. We are at the dawn of a new age in human history.

There are four major areas of man’s space engagement. The first are centuries of the dreamers. It includes those that gazed at the Moon and planets, and those like Kepler and Galileo that charted their courses and orbits, and drew maps of lunar features. Next came sending machines into space, with the introduction of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the Earth and return a signal. This was followed by man in machines, with Russians and Americans that culminated with man walking on the Moon and those traveling to the ISS Space Station. Finally, man is traveling in space through fantastic new technology.

This is a new space age where your natural human abilities will be augmented by computational systems that help you think, robotic systems that help you make, and digital nervous systems that connect you to new worlds far beyond your natural senses.

Augmentation of reality brings about dramatic new levels of cognition, the physical, and perception, with worlds of more variety, more connectivity, more complexity, more dynamism, more adaptability and more beauty. As part of this reality augmentation program, Humanoido has worked on developing an advanced space Avatar over the past six years.

The shape of things to come will be unlike anything we’ve seen before - a new door is opened for the partnership between technology, nature and humanity in space. This is a future taking us to new worlds in ways we never imagined before, in ways that are well worth looking forward to.

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Space1 Singularity Observatory Finding a Moon Landing Site

Moon South Terminator by Humanoido
divided into a photo spread for analyzing
a lunar landing site for the mission

Moon Landing Site
Finding one is not as easy as you think

Thursday, March 28, 2019
by Humanoido

It's more like finding a needle in a haystack.

Which area to choose - smooth or cratered, popular or little known, near side or far side, front facing or edge? When to land? During Full Moon, Gibbous phase, First Quarter, Last Quarter or Crescent? In full sunlight or total darkness or at a glancing solar attitude? Inside a crater or outside one? A crater with steep walls, or one with shallow slopes. One with a center mountain peak or without? Or land on the Maria smooth area, or on a bright region, or dark? Perhaps we'll see when we get there and make a choice at that time. For now we can review the photo spread and share ideas.

One thing we can do is take our Moon image from a recent Singularity Observatory archive and do a Photo Spread, then analyze the corresponding individual photos for location suitabilities. The image example is is processed with free Online Photo Editor to get the corresponding photo spread. The photo was taken by Humanoido yesterday during the Gibbous Moon.

Highest Tech Moon Landing
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-highest-tech-moon-landing.html
Humanoido Flying to the Moon
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-humanoido-fly-to-moon.html
Moon Landing in 2019
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-moon-landing-2019.html
Secret of Flight Landing
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/02/space1-secret-of-em-flight-landing.html
Moon Landing Made Simple
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-moon-landing-made-simple.html
Moon Landing
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/02/space1-moon-landing.html
Moon Program
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-moon-program.html
Finding a Moon Landing Site
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory-finding.html
Moon Mission Prep
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-moon-mission-prep.html
Moon Camera
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-moon-camera.html
Faster Way to the Moon
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-faster-way-to-moon.html
Historical Moon Landing
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-historical-moon-landing.html
2019 Year of Space Launches
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-2019-year-of-space-launches.html
Moon Mars Missions
https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/02/space1-moon-mars-missions.html
Free Online Photo Editor
https://www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com/

Monday, June 17, 2019

Singularity Observatory Fastest Telescope Alive

The initial FR reduced image of the Moon,
white portion, is obstructed by the secondary,
black circle. The gray area represent the EP.

Singularity Observatory
Making the Fastest Telescope Alive FTA

Breaking News - Wednesday, March 27, 2019, by Humanoido

Radical Experiment: Create a spectacular mind numbing speed so fast that the imagination could conjure up burn holes in the detectors!

Speed in a telescope is basically the same as speed with an optical camera lens. As the focal length becomes shorter, the images smaller and brighter.

Showing the full FOV with 2-FR & EP.
The FRs image is corrected to eliminate the
secondary obstruction using mechanical
and image processing means. The test took
place during the early morning hours of
Wednesday, March 27, 2019. Imaged with an
iPhone Xs MAX at f1.8 Telescope at f1.6.

Telescopes with long focal lengths, such SCTs and Aplanatics are usually native F11 making the telescopes slow and not conducive to deep sky imaging. However the long FL with large image scale is ideal for planets. But what if you have a long FL slow telescope and want speed for DSO explorations?

Some telescopes, such as the Celestron EdgeHD, can transform with a very expensive third party lens that attaches to the front of the corrector plate, in which some view as a delicate and time consuming operation. It transforms the telescope from f11 to f2.

— this is the greatest thing to come along for owners of EdgeHD telescopes who want to inexpensively do deep sky imaging and conduct wide field surveys of selected objects —

Humanoido has taken some simple lenses and created the ultimate fast telescope from f11 to f1.6 speed. The trick is to find focal reducers without optical corrections figured in for making a more flat FOV. This is because the mentioned telescope is already corrected for a flat FOV.

In this case, two FRs were stacked in one direction after the visual back and before a Star Diagonal, and coupled to a 55mm EP with a two inch barrel. This initially resulted in an obstruction by the image of the secondary. Through special iPhone imaging at 1x, the obstruction was negated to create a lunar image. However, the 14" f1.6 combination is so incredibly fast, the Moon is hopelessly overexposed and even the new iPhone camera could not exposure correct it.

However, the focus was at the one end limit of the telescope and the good news is the iPhone made up the focus distance automatically. This makes the process fully useable although the secondary obstruction must be negated by one method or another and in the case of the Moon - the exposure regulated by neutral density filters. More experiments show the focus is sharp all the way to the edge of the FOV making the experiment very successful and usable for deep sky imaging with a converted f11 to f1.6 telescope. The experiment can be applied to large sky areas, the changing positions of Jupiter moons, deep sky, asteroids, comets, and other objects.

Experimental Hardware FTA
1 - Celestron 14" EdgeHD
1 - Stock Visual Back 2"
2 - FR Coated wo Correction
1 - Stock Star Diagonal
1 - 55mm Coated EP w/2" Barrel
1 - iPhone Xs MAX
1 - iPhone Built-in f1.8 Wide Angle Lens

Cost Savings
The commercial F2 Hyperstar is $1,400 for a 14-inch telescope. How does this compare to Humanoido's FTA approach? Numbers show the FTA cost is over three times less expensive which is $996 less money.
2 - FR = $80 ea. = $160, 1 - 55mm EP = $244, Total $404
Hyperstar 1400 - FTA 404 = Total $996

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Space1 Moon Landing Made Simple

The Moon is only 240k miles distant. A simple high
technology manned mission to land, look around,
and return immediately to the Earth is less costly,
and should be ready to go for one SPACE1 astronaut
to land on the Moon in 2019. Image by Humanoido

Moon Landing Made Simple...
No Time to Befriend Moon Creatures

Breaking News!
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
by Humanoido

SPACE1 and Lunar Landing Mission Designer Humanoido are cutting Moon landing mission costs and mission complexity with some innovative ideas to go to the moon as soon as possible.
No more waiting another ten
years to go there.

This will make a more simple Moon landing. The ideas are to cut complexity making the entire mission more affordable. Just one Astronaut will fast track to the Moon, immediately trek down to the rugged lunar surface without losing a single moment of time, look around for a while at smooth regolith or inside a crater floor, and return home.

A special spacecraft will be constructed with the highest technology components that we have available. These parts, modules, and components are already on hand at SPACE1 Industries and will not need ordering or have any order delays. There is a construction process required to build devices and retrofit our spacecraft for the mission. The soonest the Lunar Landing Mission can take off is in 2019 when there's a perfect window of opportunity.

The process will have one astronaut in one craft going directly to the Moon from the Earth, landing, looking around, and expeditiously returning to the Earth - not staying overnight. This avoids the complexities of many things using this process. For the spacecraft, we are using a tested and sophisticated mobile app that can navigate and provide a window into space. It calculates the lunar orbit, Moon positions, star navigation and flight details. Another large part of the mission will be a built-for-space camcorder to record the mission for posterity and having a record of the historic details for SPACE1. The device will have an automatic light level circuit to compensate for the changing lunar illumination based on changes in lighting due to the sun's orbital position and Earth Shine - the light that reflects from the Earth.

* No need to worry about extended radiation
* No long term power source needed
* Can operate on standard sourced nuclear energy
* No extended oven-like temperatures and super freezing conditions
* Advanced walking Moon spacesuit not needed
* Supplies such as food, oxygen, water can be reduced
* The mission will be ready much sooner
* Ideal flight path dynamics happen in 2019
* Fewer parts & components reduce complexity
* Reduced complexity is more reliable
* More simple mission is easier to implement
* Fewer parts & components cost less
* More simple to send one Astronaut

Saturday, June 15, 2019

Space1 Rocket & Telescope Technology Merge

The Next Generation of Technology Merges Rocket & Telescope

by Humanoido
Breaking News Friday March 22, 2019

SPACE1 and Singularity Observatory are uniquely cooperating on a mega space project of great technology - an invention that combines the space Safety Rocket with the Giant Space Telescope, creating a multi symbiotic union of tremendous technological uniqueness.

How can you merge rockets and telescope optics to create a craft of space so technologically advanced that it can symbiotically push forward the frontiers of space exploration? Humanoido, Founder of SPACE1 and Director of Singularity Observatory has invented the next generation paradigm space technology.

Not yet named, Humanoido's Space Symbiosis invention comes together with a span of approximately fifty unique scientific technologies, and takes space exploration to an entire new level, a paradigm of the century.

Conventional space programs take decades to complete, and sometime centuries. One example is the NASA Moon mission that took at least ten years to complete, and the human Mars landing is still in the planning after 70 years! How many people died of old age, waiting to see astronauts land on Mars or humans return to the Moon?

NASA was founded July 29, 1958. Back in the 60s, Dr. Werner Von Braun worked for NASA and outlined a workable Mars landing with details, however the government run space agency failed to receive appropriate funding from Congress.

The new Symbiotic Space Program can complete feats in the ultra short term. Already Moon and Mars missions are in the planning within this year, and the next year or two. Stay tuned here as reports will unfold regarding the symbiotic space craft and its first manned missions into the Solar System.

For continuing information, follow this blog. Materials are available from Humanoido, SPACE1, Singularity Observatory, United Federation of Spacefaring Species, Humanoido United Laboratories, and United Space Technologies.

https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2019/03/big-brain-artificial-minds-contribute.html

Friday, June 14, 2019

Singularity Observatory German Technical Engineering

Germany Takes Engineering Honors
German Technical Engineering
The first batch of parts arrived today from one optical purchase order. Parts are from the USA, Canada, and Germany.

After examining parts and components for quality issues, several conclusions were formed. The analysis is characterized by country.

The highest quality and most supreme engineering came from Germany. The German parts and components manufactured are flawless and receive our top honors in all departments. There are no faults whatsoever with compatibility, sizes, holders, threads, barrels, slides, knobs, click stops, mounts, finishing, design, anodizing, knurling, shields, labeling, etching, engraving, end caps, supporting components, instructions & English clarity, finishing, packaging, and the full operation of each device was perfect. Thumb screws are larger than normal and work better than usual. Coatings are flawless. The thread fittings are unusually perfect and flawlessly mated and turn as smooth as silk. The extra unexpected features are wonderful, such as three varying threads built in for super compatibility, an extra place to smoothly focus, multi rubber eye guard, and a special design for multiple use.

The parts from the USA were a different story. The extremely heavy ocular came with a piece of paper stuck in the threads, stating: do not unscrew the barrel or the lenses will fall out and the warranty will not apply! The instructions talked about an adjustable height eyeguard adapter which was not included.

The remaining parts came from Canada. There are no noticed defects, however, the photo from the supplier showed the part with pieces of sharp metal flashing sticking out. It's the manufacturing companies strange standard practice to provide only one lens cap for protecting one side of the optics and not the other. Plus, several companies said the box was mislabeled regarding optical correction.

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Space1 United Space Technologies

United Space Technologies
United Federation of Spacefaring Species
International SPACE1 Industries
Singularity Observatory
Humanoido United Laboratories

Humanoido, Founder of SPACE1, has formed United Space Technologies UST, the largest and most advanced world wide technical space compendium to date.

At the top of the list, United Space UST is comprised of the United Federation of Spacefaring Species, international SPACE1 Industries, Singularity Observatory, and Humanoido United Laboratories. Sixty world divisions exist, listed at the web page.

There are so many reasons to join ...
We get to reach for the stars
We get to reach for the best in ourselves
But most important
We get to reach for each other
We get to do what we love
Alongside colleagues who’ve become friends
Who become family
And who better to stand with,
Shoulder to shoulder…
(Quote from ST-Discovery, Friday, March 22, 2019)

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Singularity Observatory Live Astro Photo

Singularity Observatory
Capture a Live Astro Photo

by Humanoido

It's alive!!! Apple has introduced several new iPhone cameras and software that changes everything when it comes to taking a photo and doing astronomical imaging! It's called Live Photos and the reality of this new kind of photo is it holds enough photos to make a 1.5 second video and has many other useful tricks.

This is a spectacular boon for astro imaging the Moon and planets as a single best shot can be chosen or several best shots extracted and summed into one more perfect image. It's one way of shooting through those pesky sky conditions when the blurring atmospheric seeing conditions clear for only a fraction of a second. Doing Astro Live Photo imaging changes the game for the better, making imaging through your telescope far more easy. It can sidestep the other lengthy procedures of image processing.

What is Live Photos?
Live Photos is an iPhone camera feature that brings your photos to life by creating a moving image. Instead of freezing a moment in time, you can now capture a Live Photo with movement and sound. iPhone Live Photos can be converted into stunning long exposure images. A Live Photo captures 1.5 seconds of video and audio both before and after you press the shutter button to take a photo. As well as a high quality still JPEG image, you also get a 3 second Live Photo with sound. When you play a Live Photo, you don’t see the still image that you took when you pressed the shutter button. Instead, you’ll see a 3 second moving image. When you shoot a Live Photo, the iPhone also captures a still image. This lets you relive those moments before and after you took the photo.

Phones and OS Working with Live Photo
You can only shoot a Live Photo with the iPhone 6s/6s Plus or newer. But you can share them to older iPhones or an iPad as long as that device is running iOS 9 or later. The Live Photo feature is available on the following iPhones:

iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X
iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR

How it Works
How does the iPhone know to record video for the 1.5 seconds before you press the shutter button? With Live Photos enabled, the built-in camera app starts recording video as soon as you open the app. So when you press the shutter button, your iPhone has already captured the 1.5 seconds before the shot. It saves this footage along with the 1.5 seconds following the image capture. Your iPhone discards all other video footage captured before and after those 1.5 seconds. So you don’t need to worry that the constant video recording will fill up your iPhone’s storage.

How To Switch On Live Photo
Start by opening the built-in camera app, and set the shooting mode to Photo. You can’t shoot Live Photos in any of the other shooting modes. The Live Photos setting is the round icon shown on the top of the screenshot below. If the icon is yellow, Live Photos is on. If the icon is white, tap it once to turn on Live Photos.
Live Photos is on by default, but you can switch it off at any time by tapping the yellow Live Photos icon. When you switch on Live Photos, the word “Live” appears in a yellow box as shown. This will disappear after a couple of seconds.

Video Starting
Remember that the 1.5 seconds of video starts before you press the shutter button. So make sure you compose your shot and hold it there for a couple of seconds before you press the shutter. If you don’t do this, the first part of your Live Photo will be of you moving the camera to frame the shot. Likewise, your iPhone will record video for 1.5 seconds after you’ve pressed the shutter. So make sure you keep your phone still for a couple of seconds after taking the shot.

Live Photo Audio
Live Photos capture audio as well as video. So you’ll hear any sound in your Live Photo when you play it back.

Turn Off Live Photo
When you no longer want to shoot Live Photos, switch off the Live Photos feature so that the icon turns white.

How to View on an Older iPhone Model
View Live Photos on an older iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that can run iOS 9 or later. Find the Live Photo you want to view. Touch and hold the photo to animate it.

How to view Live Photos on a newer iPhone model
View a Live Photo on Apple's current-generation iPhone models, see list. Launch the Photos app from your Home screen. Find the Live Photo you want to view. Press firmly on the photo to animate it. It will blur for just a second and then start to play.

Storage
Live Photos take up a lot of storage space on your iPhone. So if you leave it on for every shot you may find that your phone becomes full.

Processing
Processing your live images is easy with Apple's free Photo, a program on iMac computers and an app on iPhones. You can edit Live Photos in the Photos app in a similar way to editing still images. For Live Photos there are some extra editing tools. When you open a Live Photo, tap Edit at the top right of the screen. The editing tools will appear. Crop and rotate, apply a filter, or make lighting and color adjustments. The wand icon is an autocorrect option for enhancing exposure and color with a single tap.

Change the Key Photo

You can change the key photo (the one you see in your photo library) using the slider at the bottom of the screen. Move the slider until you find the image you want. Tap Make Key Photo to confirm your choice: A white dot will appear over your chosen photo. A grey dot appears over the original key photo in case you ever want to go back to it. When you’ve finished editing your Live Photo, tap Done to save the changes. If you want to remove the editing you applied, you can revert back to the original Live Photo at any time. In the Photos app, find the Live Photo you want to revert, tap Edit, then tap Revert. On the message that appears, tap Revert to Original. Another option under the Edit facility is to switch from a Live Photo to a still image (without making any edits). When you’re viewing a Live Photo, tap Edit, then tap the yellow Live Photos icon to convert it to a still image. The icon will turn white to show that it’s no longer a Live Photo. Tap Done to confirm.

Special Effects

Since iOS 11, you can apply three special effects to your Live Photos: Loop, Bounce and Long Exposure.

Long Exposure

The Long Exposure option creates a photo with a slow shutter effect. It overlays all the video frames from your Live Photo to create a single image. Long exposure with scenes that include movement will blur the motion. With a telescope, make sure tracking in on and the image is ultimately stable. This ensures that the stationary parts of the scene remain sharp in the final image. Long exposures should lessen image noise.

Turn a Live Photo into a GIF
There's no longer the need for a GIF creator app. You can do it all right in the Photos app! Launch the Photos app from your Home screen. Find and tap the Live Photo you'd like to turn into a GIF. Swipe up on the center of the screen to reveal the animation options. Tap Loop if you'd like to loop the Live Photo as a GIF.

How to Extract a Still Shot from a Live Photo
If you want the still photo only, you can make a copy. Open the Photos app. Select the Live Photo you want to extract a still shot from. Tap the Share icon in the bottom left corner of the screen. Tap Duplicate in the option tray at the bottom of the screen. Tap Duplicate as Still Photo. A copy of the still photo will appear in your library right next to the original Live Photo. You can delete the Live Photo if you no longer want it to take up storage on your iPhone.

Links
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207310

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Singularity Observatory Moon thru Screen

Singularity Observatory
Wild Experiment! Moon thru Screen

by Humanoido

What happens when shooting the Moon through a window screen? This wild experiment shows the beautiful unexpected results - unexpected unless you're already an Astrophysicist, Physics major or remember your high school science class.

What happened? The image shows the screen acts like a prismatic diffraction grating, causing multiple rainbows to appear around the Moon's light.

At least seven rainbows are seen, some are a bit irregular in shape and flanked by reflections. Could the screening be used for spectroscopic studies and more accurate color determinations? Perhaps so by adjusting the conditions - make the screen perpendicular and closer to the telescopes optical axis, adjust the spacing of the screening weave, and use a color-tuned spectroscopic CCD camera without any introduced lenses. The results could be useful in determining the composition of lunar regolith in particular regions on the Moon, in a determination towards finding land for lunar mining and a lunar base.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Singularity Observatory Focal Reducer

Singularity Observatory
Focal Reducer Experi-ment

The Celestron Focal Reducer is a great product, designed to change a telescope from f11 to f7. It simply screws into the visual back of an SCT followed by the star diagonal and eyepiece.

by Humanoido

This means more of a large object like the Moon will fit into the field of view when looking through the telescope's eyepiece. Exactly how much more of an object, like the Moon, is visible with the Focal Reducer in place? This experiment will qualitatively determine that result.

Results are shown at the left. The top image highlights the Moon imaged through the eyepiece without a focal reducer. The Moon has a much larger image scale and does not fit into the field of view. Below, the image highlighted was taken with the focal reducer in place. The Moon just fits into the field of view. The focal reducer is one that offers edge correction for SCTs that are not already corrected. Telescopes like the EdgeHD are corrected to the edge and Celestron does not recommend using this focal reducer. However, it works well, and the author bought it for CCD use which covers only a small center area which is fully corrected. All in all, the image is rather good at the edge, even the focal reducer was not recommended.

Keep in mind this experiment was performed with the supplied Celestron stock 23mm eyepiece which appears to add color fringing aberrations with or without the focal reducer. Also, the hand held iPhone Xs Max camera adds numerous lenses into the optical train which may cause reflections, differences in lighting and focus issues depending on the orientation.

Celestron 14" f/11 EdgeHD CGX-L
Celestron Luminos 23mm FL Eyepiece 2"
Celestron Star Diagonal
Celestron Focal Reducer f/7
Apple iPhone Xs MAX

*Image experiment on Thursday evening, March 21, 2019 at 8:05 pm local time, through clouds and haze, camera was hand held, no drive, shot indoors looking out to the sky view

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory-indoor.html

Sunday, June 9, 2019

Singularity Observatory Indoor Observing Success!

Indoor Celestron 14" EdgeHD CGX-L telescope lunar imaging through an opened deck door.
The Moon is seen up about 45 degrees elevation in the sky, and left of the OTA

Moon by Humanoido, imaged Thursday,
March 21, 2019 at 8:05 pm local time.
EdgeHD 14" telescope, Celestron FR, stock
23mm 2" EP and star diagonal, hand held
Apple iPhone Xs MAX, imaged indoors, single
image, processed with Photo, corrected for
EP achromatic aberration, air pollution, and
light pollution.

Singularity Observatory
Successful Indoor Lunar Observing
with a Big Telescope

by Humanoido

Breaking News
Thursday March 21st 2019

I was surprised the immense massive and heavy Celestron 14-inch EdgeHD CGX-L telescope fit inside the home fully assembled, with three counterweights and castors on the feet to provide more resting surface area so as not to crack or mar the ceramic floor. The EdgeHD 14-inch is the largest telescope manufactured by Celestron Company and also the most expensive. It's important to get full use from this telescope with as many convenient observing programs as possible, even if the telescope must sometimes remain indoors for work on both day and night programs. During the day, the scope observes the forest jungle for wildlife conservation studies and runs experiments in optics and telescope dynamics. The telescope is also useful for tracking SPACE1's rocket launches and various space missions.

The top of the OTA just cleared the ceiling by about 2-inches, certainly a stroke of luck. The telescope room has a lowered ceiling to make space for a sleeping loft. Just a few days earlier a plan was outlined for operating the telescope from indoors while peering through the opened deck door.

https://space1usa.blogspot.com/2019/03/space1-singularity-observatory_20.html

This was a quick experimental setup because the entire day was heavy overcast, and suddenly shortly after lunar rise time the haze began to dissipate and it was time to scramble to get set up with the new telescope and accessories. First off, the door was opened to the outside for an hour to achieve thermal equilibrium. The heat was on in the 85 deg. F. weather. Humidity was pushing 96%. The image of the Moon barely fit into the telescope's FOV after a Celestron FR was attached to get around f/7. The OTA needed precise positioning so at not to engulf the door frame. Only one photo was lucky enough to capture the entire Moon because the Moon was framed right up to the edged of the EP. The camera used is an iPhone Xs MAX in auto exposure mode, hand held in front of the EP (a very taxing and difficult process) for the afocal method of projection with a supplied Celestron 23mm 2-inch. No drive was running at the time and the telescope was moved by hand. The polar axis was only rough aligned with a compass. Images were shot through clouds, haze, strong air/light pollution. As the hour progressed, the telescope protruded into the door frame and obstructed the images.

This provides a lot of wiggle room for the future to obtain much higher resolution results. A portable smart phone mount is on order for the bionic phone, higher quality EPs, two FRs without field correction, and soon the CCD imager system will be setup with the computer along with the drive cabled to power the mount at the exact computed lunar rate. One thing noticed is the sky opening covers the exact area where the Moon passes by frequently in the springtime and is the same area where the planet Mars hovered during the 2018 opposition, and more recently Venus made an appearance. The sky-view has a peak elevation around 45 degrees facing East Southeast. The area could also catch Jupiter, Saturn and other objects with the correct timing.

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Singularity Observatory Telescope Mirror Flip Flop

Singularity Observatory
Telescope Mirror Flip Flop
Using new Celestron telescopes, how well do mirror locks work to reduce or eliminate the shifting of the mirror?

There are two specific conditions that affect SCTs with moving mirrors. The first is mirror shift that occurs when you are attempting to focus. The second is mirror FLOP, where the mirror moves as you cross the meridian or change orientation in altitude.

The mirror locks do absolutely nothing to control the shift that occurs when focusing. For visual use, they are not normally employed because you would have to unlock them every time you wanted to change focus.

If you are imaging, the locks are used to keep the mirror from flopping as the telescope changes orientation. For this, they are very effective. Once the mirror is focused and the lock knobs are tightened, the mirror will maintain its position and not flop around as the telescope is moved across the sky. Once you put your camera on and focus, you can move from object to object without fear of the mirror flopping to a different orientation.

Note: As soon as you adjust the focus using the mirror focuser you may introduce a shift in the mirror. The mirror locks do nothing to counter this. The mirror locks consist of small rods that are attached to the back of the mirror assembly and extend into the lock knobs. When the lock knobs are turned, they cause the mechanism to tighten around the shaft to hold it in place. The best way to avoid the flop issue, if you can do so with the back focus, is to use a rear cell Crayford focuser. That way you can lock the mirror into position and leave it there when collimated.

When dealing with flop, it may not be an issue when astro imaging with short exposures summed in a small time frame where the telescope will not cross the meridian or make large changes in elevation.

Friday, June 7, 2019

Singularity Observatory Bullet Clutch & Focus

Singularity Observatory
Master the Bullet Clutch & Focus
There's a bullet inside your telescope and how you master its use will determine the fate of your telescope!

(According to Celestron) The Celestron EdgeHD telescope series have a mirror with clutches to apply tension to a flexible rod attached to the primary mirror support. With enough tension from both clutches, they lessen mirror shift or mirror flop when the scope is moved around in different orientations while in use.

Because they are flexible, the mirror clutches won’t prevent focusing while tightened. However, because they do put force on the mirror, they should be loosened when focusing. Otherwise the combination of their force and the focusing effort may put unequal pressure on the primary mirror, causing it to bind or unevenly shift while focusing. Note: The EdgeHD 14”, like older Celestron 14” tubes, has two regular mirror locks in addition to the clutches. These locks do just that – lock the mirror. They should be used when the telescope is transported, not to prevent mirror shift. Never focus when these locks are engaged - you may damage either the focuser or mirror.

(According to link) The primary reason for focus shift in the SCT design is a result of the mirror continuing to settle when the final focus is approached using clockwise motion of the focuser. This is because the mirror can continue to settle due to the play between the threads of the focuser shaft and the carrier on the mirror. If you approach final focus using a clockwise, you are "pushing" the mirror down. When you stop, gravity will allow the mirror to now settle away from the treads that are pushing it down to the opposite face of the treads so that they are now "Holding the mirror up." The best results with a SCT will be to always approach final focus using counterclockwise turns of the focuser.

For imagers, this "Lifts" the mirror into final position so that play in the focuser is never allowed to occur. The mirror is raised into position so that the mirror carrier on the baffle is always left at the same orientation, an there is no play left for it to settle back from. For visual observers, the added benefit is that approaching focus using CCW turns will result in less chasing focus (inward direction for Refractors and Reflectors). If you overshoot final focus slightly, the eyes normal visual accommodation can easily adjust to refocus the image on their own. I have had the Celeston EdgeHD locks apart and I can assure you that the design, if the locks themselves, cannot cause any mirror shift. This means that the only shift is the same that comes with regular SCTs and the solution is an aftermarket external focuser, or using CCW motions of the focuser to approach final focus (to may not eliminate, but will greatly reduce shift). Link