SpaceTelescopeLetterICS16RUE--2

ICS16RUE 12/15/15

Dear Luke S. Walker:

In my professional opinion, the Semi-Wide Field Telescope is the best and most ideal telescope for space exploration. My reasoning behind this is that it has incredible resolution at 0.03. It also has 9.00 field of view. This makes it good to view things clearly from near or far. The time to focus is at 10 minutes which isn't too good but makes up for it with 50 minute max viewing time giving you 40 to view. It also has a 7 year lifespan giving you plenty of time to observe the cosmos. My second best is the Extended Time Telescope. When I look at the resolution, this telescope has a 0.10 resolution, making it decent to view but makes up for it in viewing time. It has a 5.76 field of view making it ideal to view astronomical objects from near or far. While it takes 15 minutes to focus, you can also view for up to 120 minutes giving you plenty of time to analyze whatever you are researching. It also has a pretty good lifespan 10 years. My third best telescope is the Wide Field. My reasoning is that its resolution is very high at 0.05 and it has the highest field of view at 10.56. This makes it great to view things clearly at close distances or far distances. It's time to focus is not exactly ideal at 10 minutes and its viewing time 30 minutes. This gives you about 20 minutes to view things very clearly from pretty much anywhere, near or far. It also has a great 15 year lifespan. My fourth best is Target Acquisition. My reasoning is that it takes only one minute to focus and has a 45 minute viewing time giving you about 44 minutes to view with a 0.07 resolution which is third out of five. It also has a 6.25 field of view, second in the list. This would be good to view things at a close distance. It has a pretty good lifespan of 8 years. The fifth best telescope is the High Resolution because of its incredibly high resolution at 0.2 but it has a low Field of view at 3.06. It also takes 7 minutes to focus and 25 minutes viewing time giving you about 18 minutes to view things in space incredibly clearly. It also has a 15 year lifespan. My sixth best telescope is the Precision Spectroscope. I rank it here because it has a 0.07 resolution which is ok but not ideal. It also has a 4.8 Field of View so it's not too good to view things closely. It takes 7 minutes to focus and a 35 minute max viewing time giving you about 28 minute to view things at a average resolution. It also only has a 8 year max lifespan. My 7th telescope is the Advanced Spectroscope. My reasoning behind this is that it has terrible resolution at 0.13 and a 3.06 field of view. It also has a 35 minute viewing time with 5 minute focus time giving you about 30 minutes to view. It also has a 10-5000 Spectograph range which is good to view things in different waves. This still doesn't make up for the bad resolution because you won't be able to see anything. It does, however, have a good lifespan of 12 years. My final and worst telescope is the Massive Duration. My biggest reason is that it has only a 0.15 resolution making it terrible to view things even with a pretty good 7.56 field of view. The only real good quality about this telescope is its 240 minutes max viewing time with a ten minute focus time and a 20 year lifespan. I've ranked these telescopes by first looking at the resolution. Then I looked at the field of view because I feel these two are the most important. Then I look at the max viewing time and subtract the time to focus. And then I average them and rank them because the lifespan is not too important since they all last for at least 7 years. I hope you will take this into consideration and use this info.

Sincerely, ICS16RUE Senior Presidential Adviser of the Space Exploration Division