A long-awaited telescope in the middle of New South Wales is set to bring a little light to the darkest parts of the skies, to hopefully answer key questions about how galaxies form and evolve.\n
The first deep sky telescope of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere is ready to shed new light on some of the darkest parts of the universe, as it begins surveys from western New South Wales.
Built almost entirely from off-the-shelf technology, the "eyes" of the Huntsman are 10 Canon-built telephoto lenses. It is similar in design to the Dragonfly Telescope Array designed by astronomers from Yale University, but there are none like it in the Southern Hemisphere.The Huntsman team is seeking out these faint objects "to try and understand how our universe evolves", Ms Caddy said.
He is using the telescope to look for exoplanets — planets outside our solar system. The multiple lenses allow him to reduce the amount of signal noise coming from the atmosphere.
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