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

Singlularity Observatory Telescope Gone Wild

The bottom left photo shows an image of M27 taken through the normal telescope at a normal focal ratio. The top image shows the exact same object but with the enhancements of amping, dialectrics, and the incredible fast add-on lensing combination of f1.75. The new image shows spectacular differences in color, contrast, image scale, nebulosity, and deep stellar magnitude penetration, all improved to a fantastic level, making the 1,325-inch telescope in a new league of its own. This telescope has Chameleon type qualities, able to reconfigure from one type of telescope into another and another. There is the wild possibility that nearly every new image taken with this spectacular telescope will become a new discovery image. Note: unless you're looking at this large image comparison on a big screen computer, the full effect may not be visible on small mobile devices.

Telescope Gone Wild
Humanoido, Director of Singularity Observatory and the Astrophysics Lab at United Humanoido Laboratories, has incredibly taken the 1,325-inch diameter Amped Dialectric telescope and changed its design into a new one with the ultimate focal ratio of an incredibly fast f/1.75 system.

The redesign was possible using a doubling of multi optic sets and the raw coupling plates from Charge Coupled Devices. At f1.75, this extreme fast lensing and reflective telescope acts like a fast ultra large massive Schmidt Camera, and shows a mind boggling amount of celestial objects and detail like never before.

The technique is derived in part by using specific combinations of optics calculated mathematically to provide the significant change in EFL. Lenses and optical set arrays from at least four optical companies provide the part combinations necessary to drive the 1325. A fifth company provided the optical charge coupling plates. Company suppliers are located in the United States, Germany, Canada, and China. Some of these lenses have special precision dialectrics to improve performance.