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  2. Celestron - Wikipedia

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    Celestron was the first large scale commercial manufacturer of the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, introducing its "C8" 8" diameter 2032 mm focal length, ƒ10 telescope in 1970. [7] The primary innovation Celestron/Tom Johnson devised was a method to produce Schmidt corrector plates using a vacuum to pull the glass blanks into a pre-shaped curve ...

  3. Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope - Wikipedia

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    The first large telescope to use the design was the James Gregory Telescope of 1962 at the University of St Andrews. As of 2021, the James Gregory Telescope is also recognized as the largest Schmidt-Cassegrain. [4] The telescope is noted for its large field of view, up 60 times a full moon. [4]

  4. Orion Telescopes & Binoculars - Wikipedia

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    Orion ED120 apo refractor on Orion's Sirius EQ-G "GoTo" and GPS equipped German equatorial mount with portable 12 volt power supply. Orion sold a range of telescopes that they characterize as "beginner", "intermediate" or "advanced", including Newtonians, Maksutovs, Schmidt-Cassegrains, Ritchey-Chrétiens and refractors with or without (sold as optical tube assemblies or "OTA") a variety of ...

  5. Owl Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The 14th magnitude central star has passed the turning point in its evolution and is condensing to form a white dwarf. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] It has 55–60% of solar mass, is 41 to 148 times solar luminosity ( L ☉ ), [ 5 ] and has an effective temperature of 123,000 K. [ 9 ] The star has been successfully resolved by the Spitzer Space Telescope as a ...

  6. Atacama Large Millimeter Array - Wikipedia

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    Spatial resolution of 10 milliarcseconds (10 −7 radians), 10 times better than the Very Large Array (VLA) and 5 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope, but still considerably lower than the resolution achieved with optical and infrared interferometers. The ability to image sources arcminutes to degrees across at one arcsecond resolution

  7. Augmented reality - Wikipedia

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    This allowed telescope operators to identify satellites, and also to identify and catalog potentially dangerous space debris. [ 39 ] Starting in 2003 the US Army integrated the SmartCam3D augmented reality system into the Shadow Unmanned Aerial System to aid sensor operators using telescopic cameras to locate people or points of interest.

  8. New Horizons - Wikipedia

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    On January 19, 2006, New Horizons was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by an Atlas V rocket directly into an Earth-and-solar escape trajectory with a speed of about 16.26 km/s (10.10 mi/s; 58,500 km/h; 36,400 mph). It was the fastest (average speed with respect to Earth) human-made object ever launched from Earth.