Spaceship based telescopes

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Third, it has grossly oversized optics relative to its resolution -- a 30mm operating at 10x magnification will have about the same night vision as a human, one operating at 1x will have 100x the night vision. Reasonable TL 9 sensors can probably swap between night vision and telescopic vision on a 1:1 basis, and can add one extra level of night vision by switching to black and white with NIR. They can also take extra time, which the human eye generally cannot do.

Well, the human brain can take extra time to study a scene, so it probably events out in terms of bonuses...

Would it be realistic enough for the sensor design rules to just say you can trade off night vision and telescopic vision levels at 1-1 at TL7-8 while designing the sensor, but at TL9+ the same sensor can electronically switch between them each turn?