Colossus Telescope

The Colossus Telescope is a specialized private observatory planned with a combined area of 74 meters (243 feet) of aperture, capable of resolving images of extrasolar planets up to the size of Mercury for nearby stars. It has a lower cost of construction by combining new technologies and a design similar to the Hobby–Eberly telescope. It will also be able to detect extrasolar civilizations like Earth according to global warming as a thermodynamic marker.

Science Goals

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera image (LROC, NASA) which was able to detect from its lowest orbit the Apollo landing sites and tracks left by astronauts. This is the level of spatial resolution that would be seem with the Colossus Telescope from the surface of the Earth.

International Space Station photographed from space during repair of the US Solar array by astronaut Scott Parazynski. The Colossus will be able to see manmade objects at this height with the level of detail as on this picture.

• Detecting Habitable Planets
• Seeing the Surfaces of other Stars
• Seeing Near Black Hole Event Horizon in the Galaxy Center, Colossus will enable detection of individual stars falling into the black hole down to its event horizon at 10 μas.
• Monitoring Moon Colonization, it would be able to detect objects and details on the lunar surface as small as 2m
• Seeing Manmade Objects in Space with a spatial resolution of 2mm at the height of 400 km

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Technology

• Ultra thin mirrors
• Hybrid interferometer concept

Colossus Array

Because it the weights so little and is scalable in size, it can be combined in tens or hundreds of blocks that can be up to a kilometer or more across. Adding the capability for laser propelling interestelar nano craft .

Aditional precursor telescopes under study and development

• PLANETS telescope: Polarized Light from Atmospheres of Nearby ExtraTerrestrial Systemsis is the precursor to the Colussus telescope a single off-axis 1.85 meter telescope, currently under development, 2.6m USD invested already, expected January 2018.
• ELF telescope: The excellent finder, is a 16, 5 meters mirrors, telescope converted into a hybrid intereferometer, 150m estimated cost, sensitivity to alien oceans and continents in Proxima b using a technique know as rotational exoplanet imaging.
• ParFAIt: Partially filled aperture interferometric telescope

Organizations that have supported the PLANETS telescope and the PLANETS foundation

• The Institute for Astronomy (IfA) is a research unit within the University of Hawaii system
• Tohoku University
• The Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics is a research institute located in Freiburg, Germany.
• The State University of Ponta Grossa
• The University of Lyon,
• HotMol The project “Hot Molecules in exoplanets and inner disks” is funded by the European Research Council (ERC)
• The National Autonomous University of Mexico

See also

• Thirty Meter Telescope
• European Extremely Large Telescope
• Giant Magellan Telescope
• Extremely large telescope
• List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
• Breakthrough Initiatives

External links

• Colossus Telescope
• PLANETS Foundation

Video

• The Path to Finding Life in the Universe

References

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