This revolutionary instrument is packed with technology & world-leading performance.

*- The highest stiffness, lowest mass structures & instruments, producing cutting-edge performance.

*- The most athermal optical instruments, by design. Higher & more consistent performance.

* Stop losing performance due to non-athermal mirror mounts that dynamically distort the precision optical surfaces as ambient temperature changes. * Athermal eliminates the need for complex flexures or heavy, vibration-prone Invar metering rods. Dream's structures match the lightweight mirrors, creating the lightest, stiffest and highest performance instruments in the world. * Stop losing time focusing. Dream's athermal optical instruments provide more open shutter time; higher throughput. * Constantly re-focusing means focus will be missed more often, which will hurt resolution and intensity. * Using a dichroic beam splitter with non-athermal optical instruments that come with near-constant focus shifts; ** places the main camera & filter wheel 90° to the optical path, making the instrument unbalanced and often increases flexure. ** creates optical quality loss due to yet another optical surface (dichroic), as well as quality loss due to bending of that dichroic surface, creating more dynamic performance losses. ** for visual spectrum work, it forces NIR wavelength transmission, which is notorious for causing reflections. ** adds more weight, causes more flexure and requires more back focus distance. Dream's athermal optical instruments don't need this crutch or the losses they create.

*- 95% of the structure weight (without glass optics) is carbon fiber with only 5% traditional metals (mostly stainless steel).

Make sure the instrument you're considering actually uses carbon fiber extensively, in reality, not just in promotional statements. Mass-market companies are infamous for using bait & switch tactics to sell products. While they say "carbon fiber telescope," most use 5-10% off-the-shelf (nothing special, not tuned) carbon fiber & 90-95% aluminum. Aluminum is cheap, easy to machine, low in stiffness & has a much higher Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE). Anodized aluminum isn't remotely close in mechanical or thermal properties to Dream's CFSC™. There's no truth in advertising (buyer beware), which is one of the main reasons Dream was founded in 2003; to honestly make a better mousetrap. True performance doesn't require constant refocusing to compensate for low stiffness & non-athermal performance losses. Others who use flexures to deal with differential material CTE are creating low-stiffness, leading to additional performance losses. If a "carbon fiber telescope" requires Invar metering rods, the buyer has been deceived.

High altitude long endurance (HALE), high-altitude long endurance (HALE), HALE UAS, High-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS), high altitude pseudo satellites HAPS, Helios, Lindstrand, Odysseus, Airbus Zephyr

Defense intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), Defense intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), Aurora Flight Sciences, high altitude platform station (HAPS), High-Altitude Platforms HAPS

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NASA ATLAS project - asteroid terrestrial-impact last alert system DFM colorado early detection of dangerous asteroids

near earth object (NEO), Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) detection, NEO & LEO & KBO search & recovery projects, NASA Near-Earth Object Observations Program

Since 2003 Dream has produced optical instruments with truly the highest amount of carbon fiber & Dream's CFSC™ of any company in the world. Dream has 20 years of advanced composite expertise because we design & fabricate all of our carbon fiber in house and always have. Others use aluminum and solid mirrors extensively (both are 200 year old technologies), which shows in the mass and flexure of their products. Dream's technologies produce instruments that are often 2-3 times lighter than others who claim to be "lightweight." Dream was founded because of the industry's obsession with deceptive practices & exaggerated claims. Dream's CFSC™ has been developed over the past 20 years and is an ideal technology for opto-mechanical systems; high modulus, low structure & thermal mass, with a Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) that matches Dream's other key in house technology; highly engineered zeroDELTA™ precision lightweight optical mirrors. solar high altitude platform station HAPS, Earth Observing Systems (EOS), European Space Agency (ESA)

*- Instrument includes ASCOM-compliant focus & camera rotator built in.

*- Dream's zeroDELTA™ engineered lightweight optical mirrors have unrivaled installed performance.

* Mechanical: high stiffness of the mirror and for the supporting structures because the zeroDELTA™ precision lightweight optical mirrors are 3-6 times lighter than solid mirrors. * Thermal: mirror seeing and tube currents are eliminated due to Dream's world-leading thin-featured zeroDELTA™ high-performance mirrors & Dream's FAST™. * Thermal: Dream's thin-featured zeroDELTA™ mirrors equalize hundreds of times faster than solid mirrors due to their extremely short thermal time constant. You wouldn't build a campfire under an optical system but that's the kind of performance limit & loss you get with a centuries-old problem; solid mirrors. The Schlieren images below of a 220mm solid mirror show the inconsistent & degraded performance that opticians & instrument makers have known about for centuries. "We shall look back and see how inefficient, how primitive it was to work with thick, solid mirrors, obsolete mirror-curves, ..." - George Willis Ritchey 1928 JRASC, Vol. XXII, No. 9, November 1928. stratospheric balloon borne focal plane assembly, Caltech, MIT lincoln Labs, French National Space Agency CNES, Harvard center for astrophysics * Optical: zeroDELTA™ M2's have been finished to as high as L/125 RMS surface HeNe (4.5x beyond the diffraction-limit), with 2Å (0.2nm) RMS surface roughness, maintaining this extreme performance over at least a +/-3°C temperature swing, which equals the stability of the finest grade of Zerodur. 0.6m Dream zeroDELTA™ lightweight mirror shown with 4D Technology PhaseCam; a technology born out of a NASA program for space telescopes. * Optical: Dream's zeroDELTA™ optical mirrors have a complete lack of print through, offering the smooth surfaces of a solid mirror without the laundry list of performance losses associated with 200+ year old solid mirror technology. PhaseCam's large, heavy & heat-producing laser module (left module) is separate from the small, lightweight head (8.2 pounds). This is the smallest, lightest & most sophisticated phase-shifting interferometer on the market. Dream uses it to finish the ultra smooth zeroDELTA™ lightweight mirrors. For generally upward-looking applications, the lightweight mirrors are processed/finished based modern interfeometry data while the mirrors are in their final athermal CFSC™ mirror mounts, tested in Dream's 5m vertical test tower. Outside Dream: 0.4m zeroDELTA™ lightweight mirror (<10 pounds with 2.5" edge height) being tested with a 4D Technology NanoCam™ HD on robot arm, quantifying the RMS surface roughness of the optical surface; the smallest scale errors. Dream's in-house polishing produces optical surfaces with 6-9Å (0.6-0.9nm) RMS surface roughness. Dream's polish & test room is 68°F, +/-1°F year-round. Both the lightweight primary & secondary mirrors are coated with First Contact prior to shipping. This protects the precision optics during shipment & provides pristine optical surfaces for Dream's customers. MIT Lincoln Labs, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA, NASA JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC Lightweight carbon fiber structures, honeycomb sandwich core composites, CFRP, lightweight optical carbon fiber structures, lightweight carbon fiber structures for optical instruments.

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