We already know that Hubble telescopes is the only machine which can help us to analyze stars on the universe. But lately, this Hubble will meet a rival. Greg Parker, a professor of electronics at Southhampton University who had just made a giant Earth-based telescopes which has the same ability just nearly like Hubble. It can capture image of M13 (Andromeda) and M33. The telescopes works by a refrigerated CCD chip, a rotating dome, and some smart post processing in Photoshop.

This $15,000 telescopes use 28 cm Celestron NExtar 11 GPS reflecting telescope with Hyperstar lens, an optical assembly that attaches to the telescope secondary mirror, turning it from a slow f10 to an ultrafast f2 astrograph. Its not designed for the human eye but with a matching Starlight Xpress SXV-H9C one-shot color CCD camera. Greg has installed a solid-state refrigeration system to give a lower temperature the CCD to 55º F less than the ambient temperature because the camera will give a better performance and avoid from heat during the long space observation.