Yes, and for optics like that, you get a field of view measured in arc-minutes at most. Omnidirectional detectors don't benefit from that.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Feb 20, 2016, at 10:32 PM, xxxxxx@shadowgard.com wrote:
>
>
> Nope. many orders of magnitude difference.
>
> Jump flash signal strength is going to be millions of millions of
> millions... of times weaker than a planet.

And when you can put optical detectors a couple kilometers across out in the oort cloud for your ‘telescope’?

One of the anticipated uses of the Webb telescope is to directly image exoplanets; what you could make at TL15 and where you could put it would make the Webb look like a cereal box toy telescope.

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