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  2. List of astronomical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Telescope: instrument that makes distant objects appear magnified; Torquetum: medieval astronomical instrument; Triquetrum: ancient astronomical instrument; Volvelle: paper construct with rotating parts, may be considered a subclass of slide chart or movable book; Zenith telescope: type of telescope that points straight up

  3. History of the telescope - Wikipedia

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    Notes on Hans Lippershey's unsuccessful telescope patent in 1608. The first record of a telescope comes from the Netherlands in 1608. It is in a patent filed by Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey with the States General of the Netherlands on 2 October 1608 for his instrument "for seeing things far away as if they were nearby." [12] A few weeks later another Dutch instrument-maker ...

  4. Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology

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    1978 – Einstein High Energy Astronomy Observatory x-ray telescope satellite; 1979 – UKIRT 150-inch (3.8 m) infrared reflecting telescope begins operation, located at Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii; 1979 – Canada-France-Hawaii 140-inch (3.6 m) optical reflecting telescope begins operation, located at Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii

  5. Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The idea that the objective, or light-gathering element, could be a mirror instead of a lens was being investigated soon after the invention of the refracting telescope. [8] The potential advantages of using parabolic mirrors —reduction of spherical aberration and no chromatic aberration —led to many proposed designs and several attempts to ...

  6. James Lick telescope - Wikipedia

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    A drawing of the telescope from an astronomy book. The fabrication of the two-element achromatic objective lens, the largest lens ever made at the time, caused years of delay. [2] The famous large telescope maker Alvan Clark, was in charge of the optical design. He gave the contract for casting the high quality optical glass blanks, of a size ...

  7. Timeline of telescope technology - Wikipedia

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    1672 — Laurent Cassegrain, produces a design for a reflecting telescope using a paraboloid primary mirror and a hyperboloid secondary mirror. The design, named 'Cassegrain', is still used in astronomical telescopes used in observatories in 2006. 1674 — Robert Hooke produces a reflecting telescope based on the Gregorian design.

  8. Gregorian telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian telescope consists of two concave mirrors: the primary mirror (a concave paraboloid) collects the light and brings it to a focus before the secondary mirror (a concave ellipsoid), where it is reflected back through a hole in the centre of the primary, and thence out the bottom end of the instrument, where it can be viewed with the aid of the eyepiece.

  9. Astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Historically, optical astronomy, which has been also called visible light astronomy, is the oldest form of astronomy. [59] Images of observations were originally drawn by hand. In the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, images were made using photographic equipment.

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