Canon lenses help create the eye of MOTHRA

MOTHRA observing at night. Each mount is equipped with a wide area web cam. Besides the mount in the foreground two others ...

Dragonfly FRO Unveils MOTHRA: A New Telescope to Reveal the Hidden Universe

Dragonfly FRO, LLC, a Focused Research Organization (FRO), today announced the construction of MOTHRA, a next-generation telescope designed to reveal the cosmic web — the vast network of gas and dark ...
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World’s largest 1,140-lens telescope begins construction to map the cosmic web

Construction has begun on a new telescope designed to map one of the universe’s ...

For a monster-sized challenge in astronomy, summon MOTHRA

MOTHRA has the equivalent light-gathering power of a single telescope 4.7 metres across, but its off-the-shelf optics makes it less costly. The data captured by all those lenses can be combined into a ...
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1,140-lens telescope set to uncover the universe’s hidden structure

Construction has begun on a next-generation telescope, dubbed MOTHRA, that is designed to reveal the cosmic web – a largely unknown network of gas and dark matter that connects galaxies across the ...