Centurian telescope

The Centurian telescope was a highly sophisticated form of telescope created by the Centurians in the late 22nd century and from there on ever advancing.

Centurian telescopes operated off of three key systems: These systems are integral in helping the telescope operate to maximum efficiency until it progressive, natural degradation in it's systems causes it to die.
 * High-speed informational recognition processor
 * Aesthetic amplifiers
 * and a Storage device containing over 230 gigaquads of information

In 2475, on his return to Centuria, Lt. Cmdr. Jalin explained the basic information of the telescope to Cpt. Givens.

Systems
Running off of, individually, over 10 megaquads of info for standard operation. In total running off of over 255 gigaquads of info. As stated in the 2nd paragraph, three integral systems allow for these apparatuses to be efficient.

High-speed informational recognition processor
The High-speed informational recognition processor (or HSIRP) was device which was able to recognize and familiarize it's self with preprogrammed or new data. Downloading and uploading over 700 kiloquads of info/data per second.

There were non-Centurian versions of these devices but under other namesakes.

Aesthetic amplifier
The aesthetic amplifier was a totally separate and unique system which, at the submicroscopic, recreates a highly detailed and precise image/projection of a particular thing. It is named the aesthetic amplifier due to that, it's detail and precision in image reconstruction. It is believed late 24th century and onward models contained a form of data interpolation.

Storage device
Not to much of a unique device, used among many cultures. The storage device contained all basic information contained within the telescope. Nothing really more.

Usage
Centurian telescopes could recognize a star, a microscopic light (planet) next to it, etc. [1 out of 2 times correct] and then project a astronomically accurate/hypothesized file on that celestial body. In the first 2 decades it didn't retain this design, the next decade, when that feature was applied, it was accurate 1 out of 9 times and became progressively better.

As of 2475 over 60% of Centurian and non-Centurian populations owned one of these telescopes. Or approximately over 1,032,000,000 people.

Large scale
For large scale, scientifically used telescopes. They used the same methodology but on a extremely sophisticated level, being over 5x more accurately configured, 3x more range, and over 500-600 gigaquads of information within it.