Design brief for the new CTAO telescope array appears to be "make them look like implausible props from a sci-fi movie" and I am in love
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Design brief for the new CTAO telescope array appears to be "make them look like implausible props from a sci-fi movie" and I am in love
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Design brief for the new CTAO telescope array appears to be "make them look like implausible props from a sci-fi movie" and I am in love
@jonty ffs I’m going to have to start printing the hexpansions now.
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Design brief for the new CTAO telescope array appears to be "make them look like implausible props from a sci-fi movie" and I am in love
@jonty yeah, that's beautiful
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Design brief for the new CTAO telescope array appears to be "make them look like implausible props from a sci-fi movie" and I am in love
@jonty new Null Sector prop just dropped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaging_atmospheric_Cherenkov_telescope#/media/File:The_MAGIC_Telescope_at_night.jpg
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Design brief for the new CTAO telescope array appears to be "make them look like implausible props from a sci-fi movie" and I am in love
And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
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And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty Whoa! This is so cool...
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And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty I see the Nod brotherhood is up to something again
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And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty I really want a model of it as a desk ornament
I guess it's time to find a deal on ~200 laser diodes, some mirror tiles, and give the 3d printer a bit of a workout
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And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty Enhance.
I think I can see @gsuberland in the DJ booth bang centre of that dish? -
And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty NullSector-core
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And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty hmm, some of them are square mirrors? That’s disappointing.
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@jonty hmm, some of them are square mirrors? That’s disappointing.
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@Mexicals @jonty Indeed not. I feel like their paper model PDF needs a proper version too: https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/LST_Paper_Model_Sept2025.pdf
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@jonty I really want a model of it as a desk ornament
I guess it's time to find a deal on ~200 laser diodes, some mirror tiles, and give the 3d printer a bit of a workout
@lpbkdotnet @jonty I was planning to make a slightly smaller and cost optimised version of this for EMF next time https://petrvacek.com/portfolio/fluidum/
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@Mexicals @jonty Indeed not. I feel like their paper model PDF needs a proper version too: https://www.ctao.org/wp-content/uploads/LST_Paper_Model_Sept2025.pdf
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And now I find out the telescope mirrors are focused using lasers and it looks like THIS
@jonty someone needs to do this as an installation for EMFCamp28, this is cool as fuck!
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@lpbkdotnet @jonty I was planning to make a slightly smaller and cost optimised version of this for EMF next time https://petrvacek.com/portfolio/fluidum/
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@lpbkdotnet @jonty I'm not sure if that is something to mitigate or take advantage of
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@lpbkdotnet @jonty I'm not sure if that is something to mitigate or take advantage of
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@jonty I really want a model of it as a desk ornament
I guess it's time to find a deal on ~200 laser diodes, some mirror tiles, and give the 3d printer a bit of a workout
@lpbkdotnet@mstdn.social @jonty@chaos.social i think you could make do with just 1 laser by using diffraction gratings to split it
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