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Telecompressor or focal reducer: Optical element to decrease the telescope's focal length and magnification (usually by a fixed percentage) and widen the field of view, providing opposite effects of a Barlow lens. Star Diagonal: Used to change the angle of the light coming out of a telescope, for easier viewing.
A Serrurier truss tube assembly on the Carl Zeiss Cassegrain telescope in Ostrowik near Warsaw.. A Serrurier truss is used in telescope tube assembly construction. The design was created in 1935 by engineer Mark U. Serrurier when he was working on the Mount Palomar 200 in (5.1 m) Hale Telescope. [1]
A Dobsonian telescope on display at Stellafane in the early 1980s. A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers. Dobson's telescopes featured a simplified mechanical design that was easy to ...
Image of reconstruction on a clean surface of gold. A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a type of scanning probe microscope used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level. . Its development in 1981 earned its inventors, Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, then at IBM Zürich, the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1
The Astroscan had a Newtonian reflector layout with a 4 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (10 cm) clear-inch diameter f/4.2 aluminized and overcoated borosilicate glass parabolic primary mirror with a focal length of 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (44 cm). [1] The telescope's secondary mirror was mounted on a flat optical window at
The Meade LX200 is a family of commercial telescopes produced by Meade Instruments launched in 1992 with 8" (20.32 cm) and a 10" (25.4 cm) Schmidt–Cassegrain models on computerized altazimuth mounts. [1] [2] Two larger models, a 12" (30.48 cm) and a 16" (40.64 cm), quickly followed.
Zerodur has both an amorphous (vitreous) component and a crystalline component. Its most important properties [21] are: . The material exhibits a particularly low thermal expansion, with a mean value of 0 ± 0.007×10 −6 K −1 within the temperature range of 0 to 50 °C.
Both pipe and tube imply a level of rigidity and permanence, whereas a hose is usually portable and flexible. A tube and pipe may be specified by standard pipe size designations, e.g., nominal pipe size, or by nominal outside or inside diameter and/or wall thickness. The actual dimensions of pipe are usually not the nominal dimensions: A 1-inch ...