What do you think about this idea for a telescope?

[water_skipper]

What do you think about this idea for a telescope? I've heard there are people who actually make their own telescopes for amateur astronomy. If that's true, here's one I think you should try. Maybe a telescope with a really low magnification (like a fish eye lense) so it can see the whole sky at once. That way it could be used to take pictures or videos of a meteor shower. What do you think?

[Dave M]

Not sure about the engineering involved with it. But, if it's used for still photography, you'd just have the star streaks (from the earth's rotation) and meteor streaks.

If it's for video, though, it could be possible. Either way, I'm not sure how well the final product would appear in print (cramming the entire sky onto an 8 x 11 could be a colossal mess, and likewise, putting the entire sky onto a t.v. or computer monitor is also quite condensed, but if you have a movie screen... hmmm?

I don't know, the idea has potential, but I have no clue about the quality, or what other uses it could have other than a surveillance...

[Carlos_dfc]

Hmmmm....
A low power telescope, specifically for photographic purposes....

It's called an 'astrograph', and 'Takahashi' make a very high quality model.
It won't cover the whole sky, but does cover as much as is practical.