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The Telescope: A Short History by Richard Dunn, 2009-05-01
Telescope Optics : Complete Manual for Amateur Astronomers by Harrie G. J. Rutten, Martin A. M. Van Venrooij, 1988-04
Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time: What the Hubble Telescope Saw by Elaine Scott, 2011-01-24
Galileo's Telescope (Stories of Great People) by Gerry Bailey, Karen Foster, 2009-01-30
Making a Refractor Telescope, How to Design, Grind, Polish, Test, Correct and Mount a Doublet Lens by Norman Remer, 2006
The Backyard Stargazer: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Skywatching With and Without a Telescope by Patricia Price, 2005-04-01
Amateur Telescope Making (Vol. 1)
The telescope handbook and star atlas by Neale E Howard, 1975
Astronomy with a Small Telescope by James Muirden, 1989-10-26
The History of the Telescope by Henry C. King, 2003-09-19
Astronomy Through the Telescope: The 500 Year Story of the Instruments, the Inventors, and Their Discoveries by Richard Learner, 1987-06
Making & Enjoying Telescopes: 6 Complete Projects & A Stargazer's Guide by Robert Miller, Kenneth Wilson, 1997-06-30
Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by R. A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor, 2009-10-04
Adaptive Optics for Astronomical Telescopes (Oxford Series in Optical and Imaging Sciences) by John W. Hardy, 1998-07-30

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The BAIT Home Page
Information for the Leuschner Berkeley and the Katzman automatic imaging equipment.
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~bait/
Some Giant Telescopes â Infoplease.com
W. M. Keck telescope (1991) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Its primary mirror is composed of 36 hexagonal segments, each 5.9 ft (1.8 m) across.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004510.html

Extractions: in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Search White Pages Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Health and Science Space Exploration Radio (dish-antenna) telescopes: The fixed-dish telescope (1963) near Arecibo, Puerto Rico : 1,000 ft (305 m) in diameter, covering 25 acres. Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope (1980) near Socorro, N.M. It has 27 mobile dishes, each 82 ft in diameter. The fully steerable radio telescope (1972) at Effelsberg, Germany: 328 ft (100 m) in diameter. The fully steerable radio telescope (2000) at Green Bank, W. Va.: 328 by 360.89 ft (100 by 110 m) in diameter. Optical (mirror) telescopes: Hale telescope (1948) at Mt. Palomar, Calif . The reflector is 200 in. (5 m) in diameter. W. M. Keck telescope (1991) at Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Digg - 1 Moon, 2 Planets 3 Radio Telescopes
Beautiful astronomy pod, Love the way Venus look in the sky.
http://digg.com/space/1_moon_2_planets_3_radio_telescopes

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Takahashi America
Exclusive US importer and distributor of Takahashi Seisakusho telescopes and mounts. Retailer of Swarovski, Leica and Zeiss binoculars, Meade and Celestron
http://takahashiamerica.com/

Extractions: Contact Us Welcome to Takahashi America Welcome Guest! Would you like to log yourself in ? Or would you prefer to create an account TSA-102S The TSA-10S2 is the first in the new TSA line of Takahashi triplet apochromats. The color free images produced will delight the lunar, planetary and deep sky observer with very high contract images with pin point stars. The TSA-102S is a compact, high quality, apochromatic, versatile Takahashi, made for the refractor enthusiast who wants a very high quality instrument in a relatively compact package. One great little mount, the Teegul Sky Patrol II At a recent camping event I set up my FS60C on the TSPII to provide safe viewing of the Sun for everyone, as many had never looked at the Sun before. Using a crude estimate of North and latitude adjustment this exquisite little mount tracked the Sun for a solid 5 hours running off of a 6V motorcycle battery, never losing the Sun once. I was amazed with the performance and with compact size it travels easily in an old briefcase along with the FS60C. A definite 5 out of 5. - Steve Heaton
How Things Work - Telescopes And Microscopes
A parabolic dish microphone is essentially a mirror telescope for sound. A parabolic surface has the interesting property that all sound waves that
http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/telescopes_and_microscopes.html

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ADVANCED COMPOSITE PROFESSIONAL TELESCOPES - Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics -
Offers advanced composite telescopes which utilize carbon fiber, Kevlar and honeycomb materials. Other products include RitcheyChretien telescopes,
http://www.dreamscopes.com/

Extractions: Dream is an advanced composites company that specializes in the fabrication of products using carbon fiber and the use of sandwich core technology. These products are produced in-house and cooked in one of Dream's ovens Specific raw goods can be chosen for high modulus , high strength or both. As well as tailored CTE's. Dream works with a great many types of raw fibers. Dream's products can be as much as 40% the mass of other products on the market. Yet they have an extremely low CTE, are corrosion resistant and have a higher stiffness to weight ratio. Dream services: Government Universities , Schools, Professionals and Advanced Amateurs , as well as wholesale ( OEM ) orders for world-wide customers. enter
World-class Radio Telescopes Face Closure - Space - 04 November 2006 - New Scien
Nov 4, 2006 The US National Science Foundation should shut down the Arecibo Observatory and the Very Long Baseline Array unless they can find other
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn10449-worldclass-radio-telescopes-face-c

Extractions: @import "/decorator/css/gridmain.css"; New Scientist Space Technology Environment ... Subscribe to New Scientist ARTICLE Enlarge image The 305-metre Arecibo dish is the world's most sensitive radio telescope (Image: NAIC/Arecibo Obs/NSF) Tools Related Articles Web Links Enlarge image The VLBA is a network of 10 radio dishes that stretches from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands. It provides the highest resolution views of the universe at radio wavelengths (Illustration: NRAO/AUI) Two of the world's best-known radio observatories the 305-metre Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico and a widespread collection of telescopes called the Very Long Baseline Array face the budgetary axe. Despite rising budgets, the astronomy division of the US National Science Foundation realised it could not afford to continue operating all its existing instruments while also building the new cutting-edge telescopes requested by astronomers, division director Wayne Van Citters said at a press conference on Friday.
Optic Sale: Discount Optical Telescopes. Digital Camera And Binocular Telescopes
We carry the best in optical reflecting and refracting binocular space telescopes by Tasco, Bushnell, and Galileo. ,
http://www.opticsale.com/telescopes.html

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Telescope - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects and the collection of electromagnetic radiation. Telescope (from the Greek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope

Extractions: Using inline citations (October 2007) For other uses, see Telescope (disambiguation) The 100 inch (2.5 m) Hooker reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles , California. A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects and the collection of electromagnetic radiation . The first known practically functioning telescope is credited to the German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey in . The name "Telescope" (from the Greek tele = 'far' and skopein = 'to look or see'; teleskopos = 'far-seeing') was a name given to Galileo Galilei 's instrument for viewing distant objects. The name was invented by an unidentified Greek poet/theologian, present at a banquet held in 1611 by Prince Federico Cesi to make Galileo Galilei a member of the Accademia dei Lincei . "Telescope" can refer to a whole range of instruments operating in most regions of the electromagnetic spectrum The name "telescope" covers a wide range of instruments and is difficult to define. They all have the attribute of collecting electromagnetic radiation so it can be studied or analyzed in some manner. The most common type is the optical telescope. Other types also exist and are listed below.
SKY-WATCHER TELESCOPE
Home of the SkyWatcher brand of astronomical refractors and reflectors, catadioptric Newtonians, Maksutov-Cassegrains, plus spotting scopes, mounts,
http://www.skywatchertelescope.net/
Buying A Telescope
Suggestions before purchasing a telescope.
http://physics.weber.edu/planet/telescope.html

Extractions: Click here to ignore this advice Most "department store" telescopes are outrageously over marketed with claims that are simply misleading at best and outright dishonest at worst. First of all the claims for magnification are true but not of any value. These telescopes will not produce anything but a blur for any magnification larger than about 150X. Secondly, the mounts are usually so wobbly that the view through the scope is at best unstable. Thirdly, the finder scopes are usually worthless for actually finding anything in the main scope. The fancy digital scopes that find everything for you are no better either ( see below ). Ignore the pretty pictures on the box, the images through a small telescope will never look like a professional astrophotograph! Many a person has become very disappointed and discouraged after struggling with a department store telescope. Sadly, most of these telescopes become expensive living room sculptures or just closet clutter. What do I suggest you get for the budding young (at heart) astronomer?
The Very Large Telescope Project
ESO is building what will be the World s largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for
http://www.eso.org/projects/vlt/

Extractions: HOME INDEX SEARCH HELP ... NEWS ESO is building what will be the World's largest optical telescope array, The Very Large Telescope (VLT). The VLT Project organisation is responsible for the design and construction of the Unit Telescopes, including enclosures, optics, adapter-rotators and coating unit. It is based at the ESO Headquarters in Garching, Germany. The ESO Very Large Telescope will consist of four 8-meter telescopes which can work independently or in combined mode. In this latter mode the VLT provides the total light collecting power of a 16 meter single telescope, making it the largest optical telescope in the world. The four 8-m telescopes supplemented with 3 auxilliary 1 m telescopes may also be used in interferometric mode providing high angular resolution imaging. The useful wavelength range extends from the near UV up to 25 microns in the infrared. The Paranal Observatory is located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Science operation with the first unit telscope (UT1) is scheduled for the first half of 1999. Full operations of all telescopes is expected shortly after the turn of the century. The latest news, press releases, and other information material
The Galileo Project | Science | Telescope
The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/instruments/telescope.html

Extractions: The Galileo Project Science The Telescope Johannes Hevelius observing with one of his telescopes [click for larger image] The Telescope The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It revealed hitherto unsuspected phenomena in the heavens and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional geocentric astronomy and cosmology and those who favored the heliocentric system of Copernicus. It was the first extension of one of man's senses, and demonstrated that ordinary observers could see things that the great Aristotle had not dreamed of. It therefore helped shift authority in the observation of nature from men to instruments. In short, it was the prototype of modern scientific instruments. But the telescope was not the invention of scientists; rather, it was the product of craftsmen. For that reason, much of its origin is inaccessible to us since craftsmen were by and large illiterate and therefore historically often invisible. Although the magnifying and diminishing properties of convex and concave transparent objects was known in Antiquity, lenses as we know them were introduced in the West
Gemini Observatory: Exploring The Universe From Both Hemispheres
Queue Status Classical Schedule. GeminiNorth telescope schedule 2007B 2008A Gemini-South telescope schedule 2007B 2008A
http://www.gemini.edu/

Extractions: Gemini North: Altair GCAL GMOS-North GNIRS ... TEXES Gemini South: FLAMINGOS-2 GCAL GMOS-South NICI ... Enter the Gemini Science Archive Find Science In The GSA On These Topics: Absorption lines Accreation disks Asteroids Astrometry Atmospheres and winds BAL Quasars BL Lac objects Blue stragglers Brown dwarfs Central stars of planetary nebulae Chemical abundances Cluster binary stars Comets Cooling flows Cosmological distance scale Damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems Dark matter Detached binaries Diffuse intergalactic medium Dust Dwarf galaxies Dynamics Eclipsing Binaries Elliptical galaxies Emission lines Eruptive binary stars Evolution Exospheric atmospheres Extra-solar planets Extragalactic star clusters FU Orionis stars Galactic bulge Galactic Center Galactic disk Galactic halo Galaxy centers Galaxy cluster substructure Galaxy clusters Galaxy disks Galaxy halos Galaxy morphology Gamma-ray bursts Gamma-ray bursters Globular clusters Gravitational lensing Groups of galaxies H II regions Herbig AE Herbig-Haro stars Host galaxies
It Takes More Than One Kind Of Telescope To See The Light
By studying the different electromagnetic emissions of objects such as stars, galaxies, and black holes, astronomers hope to come to a better understanding
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/features/ast20apr99_1.htm

Extractions: April 20, 1999 : By studying the electromagnetic emissions of objects such as stars, galaxies, and black holes, astronomers hope to come to a better understanding of the universe. Although many astronomical puzzles can only be solved by comparing images of different wavelengths, telescopes are only designed to detect a particular portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Astronomers therefore often use images from several different telescopes to study celestial phenomena. Shown below is the Milky Way Galaxy as seen by radio, infrared, optical, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes. Different types of telescopes usually don't take simultaneous readings. Space is a dynamic system, so an image taken at one time is not necessarily the precise equivalent of an image of the same phenomena taken at a later time. And often, there is barely enough time for one kind of telescope to observe extremely short-lived phenomena like gamma-ray bursts. By the time other telescopes point to the object, it has grown too faint to be detected.
Telescope Buyers FAQ
This is the single most important thing you should get out of this FAQ DO NOT BUY YOUR TELESCOPE FROM A DEPARTMENT STORE. Ignore everything any literature
http://home.inreach.com/starlord/

Extractions: About this FAQ Contributors to this posting include: Pierre Asselin, Dana Bunner, Doug Caprette, Mike Collins, Kevin Deane, Jay Freeman, Chuck Grant, Dyer Lytle, Christopher Gunn, Doug McDonald, Andy Michael, Dave Nash, Jim Van Nuland, Bill Nelson, Leigh Palmer, Alan Peterman, Tom Randolph, David Smith, Geoff Steer, Mario Wolczko, C. Taylor Sutherland, Paul Zander, David Knisely What is the single most important thing I should know before buying a telescope?
SkyandTelescope.com - Equipment (How To)
Sky Telescope, the Essential Magazine of Astronomy. News, observing tips, howto advice, and more!
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/howto/howtoequipment
Telescope Review And Astronomy Telescope Reviews
Read telescope reviews, Meade, Celestron, Bushnell, Takahashi telescope reviews, the Hubble, and more astronomy info.
http://www.best-telescope-guide.com/

Extractions: As astronomical telescopes have advanced over recent years, the popularity of gazing at the stars is increasing at a faster rate. People of all ages are taking up amateur astronomy, some use a small telescope, or medium telescope, while more advanced telescope owners will use large backyard telescopes. There are basically 3 types: optical, radio telescopes, and gamma-ray or x-ray. The main telescope most commonly used by amateur astronomy fans as well as advanced is optical. This consists of 3 types: reflecting, refracting, and catadioptrics. Refractor telescopes use lenses to bend light, reflectors us a thin mirror, and catadioptrics use a combination of both.
The Nine Planets Solar System Tour
All eight planets can be seen with a small telescope; or binoculars. And large observatories continue to provide much useful information.
http://www.nineplanets.org/

Extractions: by Bill Arnett Bill's site map Hardcopy The New Solar System Summarizes what we've learned from interplanetary explorations in the last 25 years. My primary reference for The Nine Planets T. Rex and the Crater of Doom The story of the discovery of the impact crater that doomed the dinosaurs. Nice description of how science works in the real world. Encyclopedia of the Solar System A more scholarly introduction to planetary science for those who want to dig a little deeper. The Compact NASA Atlas of the Solar System This 'road map' of the solar system contains lots of maps and data as well as photos. Bad Astronomy The truth is out there; so is a lot of baloney. Here's the straight story on many popular urban legends, myths and misconceptions. Great fun, too! Build Your Own Telescope Want to see the planets for yourself? It's actually pretty easy to make a simple but powerful telescope. Here's how. This website is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of the planets, moons and other objects in our solar system. Each page has my text and NASA 's images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
Iowa Robotic Telescope Facilities
Welcome to the Iowa Robotic Telescope website. The University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy maintains these pages as a guide to the Iowa
http://astro.physics.uiowa.edu/

Extractions: Welcome to the Iowa Robotic Telescope website. The University of Iowa Department of Physics and Astronomy maintains these pages as a guide to the Iowa Robotic Telescope located at the Winer Observatory in southern Arizona. The telescope consists of a 37 cm classical Cassegrain reflector designed and built by OMI , a FLI PL-09000 9 megapixel CCD camera, and seven position filter wheel. The telescope is scheduled and operated remotely from the University of Iowa in Iowa City using Talon telescope control software .The IRT is used by students and faculty at the University of Iowa for teaching laboratories and research. Astronomy courses which use these facilities include the introductory non-major survey course Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe , the major-level course General Astronomy , and the upper-level course Astronomical Laboratory . The telescope was recently upgraded with a new large-format camera, filters, mount electronics, carbon struts, and new baffle design. These upgrades were funded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Feel free to explore the site and learn about our facility or contact us at email: webmaster.iro AT gmail.com (replace AT with @). Latest image (click for larger version) This beautiful image of the Rosette nebula (HII region, plus open star cluster NGC2244) was created by students Kristin Wood and Samson Scarpino as part of their semester research project in the introductory-level astronomy class General Astronomy (29:62). It is a mosaic of 6 images, each with a field of view of 27 x 27 arcmin, resulting in a total image size is about 1.8 deg x 1.3 deg. This is a composite LRGB image with the Hydrogen-alpha filter used in place of the red filter. The Rosette nebula is an active star-formation region about 5,200 light years away and contains about 10,000 solar masses. More details about the Rosette nebula can be found

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