A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image...
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Telescopes with aperture diameter >8 metres This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater...
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The Newtonian telescope, also called the Newtonian reflector or just a Newtonian, is a type of reflecting telescope invented by the English scientist...
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and began producing telescopes using it in commercial quantities, starting in 1758. Important developments in reflecting telescopes were John Hadley's...
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Spitzer Space Telescope, observing from about 3 μm (0.003 mm) to 180 μm (0.18 mm) uses a mirror (reflecting optics). Also using reflecting optics, the Hubble...
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Ritchey-Chrétien telescopes. List of largest optical reflecting telescopes List of telescope types Lurie–Houghton telescope Maksutov telescope Reflecting telescope Schmidt–Cassegrain...
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research purposes, the refracting telescope has been superseded by the reflecting telescope, which allows larger apertures. A refractor's magnification is calculated...
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types of optical telescope: Refracting telescopes, which use lenses and less commonly also prisms (dioptrics) Reflecting telescopes, which use mirrors...
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Newton's reflector (redirect from Newton's reflecting telescope)
first reflecting telescope built by Sir Isaac Newton in 1668 is a landmark in the history of telescopes, being the first known successful reflecting telescope...
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The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory in the 17th century, and first...
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Spaceflight portal Lists of telescopes List of largest infrared telescopes List of largest optical reflecting telescopes Misc History of the telescope...
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concave bronze mirror, attempting to make a reflecting telescope. 1630 — Christoph Scheiner constructs a telescope to Kepler's design. 1650 — Christiaan Huygens...
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shape. This parabolic reflector can serve as the primary mirror of a reflecting telescope. The rotating liquid assumes the same surface shape regardless of...
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William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory...
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a reflecting telescope with a 39.3-metre-diameter (130-foot) segmented primary mirror and a 4.2 m (14 ft) diameter secondary mirror. The telescope will...
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Extremely Large Telescope Giant Magellan Telescope List of optical telescopes List of largest optical reflecting telescopes Thirty Meter Telescope Gilmozzi,...
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The Hale Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer...
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mirror instead of a lens as a telescope objective, which may be the earliest known description of a reflecting telescope. In his book he also demonstrated...
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optical reflecting telescope with parabolic mirrors 1667 – Paris Observatory 1668 – Isaac Newton constructs the first "practical" reflecting telescope, the...
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commissioning until the Large Binocular Telescope opened in 2005. The Subaru Telescope is a Ritchey-Chretien reflecting telescope. Instruments can be mounted at...
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W. M. Keck Observatory (redirect from Keck telescope)
optical reflecting telescopes in the world. They are currently the third and fourth largest. With a concept first proposed in 1977, telescope designers...
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mirror from 20 metres up to 100 metres across, when discussing reflecting telescopes of optical wavelengths including ultraviolet (UV), visible, and...
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Cassegrain reflector (redirect from Cassegrain telescope)
Mersenne's 1636 writings describing telescope designs. James Gregory's 1662 attempts to create a reflecting telescope included a Cassegrain configuration...
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Speculum metal (section Use in telescopes)
the only known good reflecting surface for mirrors in reflecting telescopes. In contrast to household mirrors, where the reflecting metal layer is coated...
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space-based reflecting telescope with a mirror 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter, known provisionally as the Large Orbiting Telescope or Large Space Telescope (LST)...
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spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite...
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Leviathan of Parsonstown (redirect from Rosse Six Foot Telescope)
or Rosse six-foot telescope, is a historic reflecting telescope of 72 inches (1.83 m) aperture, which was the largest telescope in the world from 1845...
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The ESO 3.6 m Telescope is an optical reflecting telescope run by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile since 1977, with a clear...
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diffracting around the support vanes of the secondary mirror in reflecting telescopes, or edges of non-circular camera apertures, and around eyelashes...
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Yerkes Observatory (redirect from Yerkes telescope)
instrument. A two-foot aperture reflecting telescope was manufactured at the observatory itself. The clear aperture of the telescope was actually 23.5 inches...
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