Dream has been engineering lightweight mirrors and producing its own athermal carbon fiber telescope structures in-house, including athermal carbon fiber mirror mounts, since 2003.

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1m f5.4 Dream Ritchey-Chrétien Cassegrain

Like all Dream instruments this extremely efficient, low-maintenance, powerful & high-performance Dream true R-C telescope is designed from the ground up for robotic/remote use. It comes with an optimized field flattener for superb full-field correction, no field distortion and 100% illumination of the 135mm diameter field required for the back-thinned 10k detector; 10560 x 10560 pixels, 9µ pixels.
Contact Dream for custom solutions for your project. More than 80% of what Dream produces is custom.

1.007 square degree field

This cutting-edge telescope features;
- Dream's zeroDELTA engineered lightweight mirrors: 3-6x lighter than conventional mirrors, used for both M1 & M2, no print through and the same low MSF errors of solid mirrors, due to Dream's world-leading push to produced the most highly engineered lightweight mirrors.
- Dream's engineered carbon fiber (CF) and CF skinned sandwich core components, producing an ***athermal telescope: 95% of the structure weight is Dream's carbon fiber with only 5% conventional metals - ***settingetheestandard for truly carbon fiber telescopes.
- Dream's FAST: Filtered Air System Technology: fills the telescope with clean air, providing the lowest ***possibletmaintenancetbecause it keeps optical coatings clean, requiring both less cleanings and fewer re-coats, ***astwelltastthetshortest possible Thermal Time Constant. Dream is the only company in the world that has fully addressed ***mirror seeing.
- Designed for use with the field flattener optimized for 350-800nm waveband, or without, 350nm-2000nm. Contact Dream for custom solutions.

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Lighter - Stiffer - Faster: Higher Throughput & Performance


telescope diameter

telescope length

focal length

back focus distance

~46"

56"

5425mm - f5.425

plenty for filters, off-axis guider and spectrograph
Catalina Sky Survey Pan-STARRS LINEAR Spacewatch
NEOWISE
       

Baffle Obscuration

Field Flattener

weight - pounds

telescope price

<50%

2-lens

<400

contact Dream

pricing, availability and specifications subject to change without notice

Both M1 and M2 are engineered, lightweight mirrors, finished based on high-resolution interferometry data from vertically-tested mirrors, while each mirror is in its final carbon fiber athermal mirror mount. Raw data is provided to the customer.
NASA Near-Earth Object Search Program


Field Of View using 10k back-thinned 95mm x 95mm CCD detector :

9 micron pixels, 10560 x 10560

field of view

arc-sec/pixel

60.2' x 60.2' (1.007 square degrees)

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