LARGE SCALABLE APERTURE-COMBINED OPTICAL TELESCOPE

It comprises optical assemblies that focus light onto individual first optical fibers (8) which are combined together in a final single optical fiber (10), collecting a considerable amount of light from a target, to feed an instrument such as a spectrograph (18). The first optical fibers (8) are kept centred on the target through image devices that also provide images, and these images can be combined to give rise to a high-quality image of the field surrounding the target. The final effective aperture of the device is scalable, using different numbers of optical assemblies and depending on their diameters.