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==Telescope re-alignment and testing==

==Telescope re-alignment and testing==

The team experienced some difficulties with the optical quality of the Galileo telescope it had previously used as part of the receiver system. In troubleshooting this system, Katie Petway worked with the Stanford Astronomy Club to realign the internal mechanisms and restore linearity. During this period, the team also tested out several alternative telescopes, and found experimentally that the light each telescope transferred to the detector was primarily determined only by the inlet diameter of the telescope, and very minorly impacted by any other quality metrics of the telescopes, if at all. From this information, the team decided that the most direct way to increase optical power received by the photodetector was to scale up the size of the receiving aperture.

The team experienced some difficulties with the optical quality of the Galileo telescope it had previously used as part of the receiver system. In troubleshooting this system, Katie Petway worked with the Stanford Astronomy Club to realign the internal mechanisms and restore linearity. During this period, the team also tested out several alternative telescopes, and found experimentally that the light each telescope transferred to the detector was primarily determined only by the inlet diameter of the telescope, and very minorly impacted by any other quality metrics of the telescopes, if at all. From this information, the team decided that the most direct way to increase optical power received by the photodetector was to scale up the size of the receiving aperture.