File Gerhard Wolter Molanus.jpg thumb left upright Gerhard Wolter Molanus Molano into French Gerhard Wolter Molanus b. in Hameln as Gerhard Wolter van Meulen 25 m. s.w. of Hanover Nov. 1, 1633 d. at Loccum Sept. 7, 1722 was Lutheran theologian and Loccum Abbey abbot of Loccum . He studied theology University of Helmstedt at Helmstedt and in 1659 was appointed professor of mathematics and theology at University of Rinteln . 1671 Molanus became conventual of a Lutheran Loccum Abbey and 1672 coadjutor of the abbot. ref BBKL m molanus g w band 6 autor Eckhard Reichert artikel Molanus, Gerhard Wolter spalten 33 35 ref There he lived in celibacy accoding to the Rule of St. Benedict . ref NDB 17 719 720 Molanus, Gerardus Wolterus Irene Lange ref In 1674 Duke John Frederick, Duke of Brunswick L neburg John Frederick called him to Hanover as director of the consistory after Justus Gesenius 1673 . 1677 he became abbot of Loccum under title Gerhard I, one of the most influential offices in the duchy. As a disciple of Georg Calixtus Calixtus during the Syncretism Syncretistic Controversy Syncretistic Controversy , Molanus used his power to abolish the hostility which prevailed between the Lutherans and the Reformed churches Reformed . He was very active in aiding the Reformed, who after their expulsion from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes 1685 found a refuge in the country of Hanover. Molanus was also commissioned by the duke to bring about a reconciliation between Protestants and Roman Catholics. The Roman Catholic representative was Cristoval Royas de Spinola , who appeared in Hanover in 1676 and then in 1683. These discussions were followed in 1691, 1692, and 1693 by negotiations between Jacques B nigne Bossuet Bossuet and Molanus, but no agreement resulted. Molanus found himself in agreement with Bossuet in regarding most of the differences between the Catholics ... alumni de Gerhard Wolter Molanus ... more details
A Korsch telescope is a three mirror telescope with a wide field of view, whose design ensures that there is little stray light in the focal plane . The design has a flat image plane, meaning that images on a flat detector will be the same size at the centre as at the edges. The most famous observatory with a Korsch telescope is the planned James Webb Space Telescope , though the design is also planned for the ESA high resolution optical survey mission Euclid spacecraft Euclid . astronomy stub optics stub Category Telescope types de Korsch Teleskop ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A Tower telescope is a telescope with a large refraction length at which the tube is installed inside a tower. Tower telescopes are mainly used for examinations of the sun. Examples Solar Observatory Tower Meudon Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope Mount Wilson Observatory Solar telescopes Mount Wilson Observatory DEFAULTSORT Tower Telescope Category Telescopes ... more details
wiktionary telescope A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects by the collection of electromagnetic radiation. Telescope may also refer to Telescope album Telescope album , a 2007 album by Circle Telescope TV series Telescope TV series , a Canadian television interview series hosted by Fletcher Markle Telescopes EP Telescopes EP , a 2006 EP by Waking Ashland Telescope, a type of dolly zoom The Telescopes , a British psychedelic band Telescopic cylinder Telescoping mechanics Telescoping railway , when trains collide and one ends up riding above another Telescoping effect , where remote events appear to have occurred more recently Telescoping sum Telescopium , a constellation disambiguation da Teleskop flertydig de Teleskop Begriffskl rung fr T lescope homonymie fy Teleskoop lv Teleskops noz mju atdal ana nl Telescoop ja pl Luneta ... more details
File Nasmyth Telescope.svg thumb Simple Nasmyth telescope File Walter hohmann sternwarte nasmyth cassegrain 2009.jpg thumb 160px 56cm Nasmyth Cassegrain Telescope at the Walter Hohmann Observatory in Essen, Germany The Nasmyth telescope , also called Nasmyth Cassegrain , is a reflecting telescope developed by James Nasmyth . It is a modified form of a Cassegrain telescope Cassegrain telescope, mounted on an Altazimuth mount alt azimuth mount. Scheme As in the Cassegrain telescope, the light falls on a concave primary mirror, then goes into a convex secondary mirror. However there is no hole in the primary mirror. Instead a small flat mirror reflects the light to one of the sides of the telescope. This flat mirror is placed on the altitude axis, so that the exit beam comes out of a hole in the middle of the altitude bearing. This means the eyepiece or instrument does not need to move up and down with the telescope therefore a heavy instrument can be used without upsetting the balance of the telescope or increasing the load on the altitude bearings. This has significant advantages for spectrographs and other heavy instruments typically used at research observatories. Most modern research telescopes can be configured into a Nasmyth telescope i.e. to use the Nasmyth Focus . Observatories The Sierra Nevada Observatory OSN in Spain has 2 Nasmyth telescopes, including a 1.5 meter diameter aperture one. See also List of telescope types External links commons cat Nasmyth Cassegrain telescopes http adsabs.harvard.edu abs 2000eaa..bookE5402. Nasmyth Telescope, Murdin, P., Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics Category Telescope types de Nasmyth Teleskop ru zh ... more details
Infobox Telescope bgcolour name Liverpool Telescope image File Liverpool Telescope facility exterior.jpg 220px caption organization Liverpool John Moores University location Roque de los Muchachos Observatory Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos , La Palma coords coord 28.76234 17.87925 type landmark region ES CN display inline,title altitude 2363 m weather wavelength built website http telescope.livjm.ac.uk The Liverpool Telescope style diameter convert 2 m ft angular resolution area focal length mounting dome The Liverpool Telescope LT is a convert 2 m ft adj on fully robotic telescope robotic Ritchey Chr tien telescope that observes autonomously i.e., it operates without human intervention. Professional astronomers and other registered users submit observation specifications to be considered by the telescope s robotic control system RCS at any time of the day or night using an online GUI . Each night the RCS decides for itself what to observe next based on visibility and weather conditions. The RCS additionally has a rapid response capability where it can automatically interrupt regular observations to slew to observe transient phenomena with higher priority, such as Gamma ray burst gamma ray bursts . It is the largest robotic telescope in the world to be used primarily for astronomical research. The telescope was built by Telescope Technologies Ltd ., and is owned by Liverpool ... Telescope North and the Faulkes Telescope South , the Liverpool Telescope is also available for use ... is organised by the National Schools Observatory. The Liverpool Telescope is one of the primary players in the Heterogeneous Telescope Networks Consortium, a global collaboration between major ... remote telescopes, telescope users, and other scientific resources. See also List of largest optical ... Telescope http telescope.livjm.ac.uk Liverpool Telescope website http www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk ... RoboNet controls telescopes over the internet http telescope networks.org Heterogeneous Telescope Networks ... more details
Tauchmann telescope is a 0.5 m 22 inch Reflecting telescope reflector atop the water tank at Huyghens Peak. It is part of the Lick Observatory at Mount Hamilton . The telescope has been constructed by George Tauchmann , an amateur astronomer from Berkeley, California . In 1937 it was the biggest amateur reflecting telescope in the world ref http www.time.com time magazine article 0,9171,756192 2,00.html Amateur and Amateurs, 1937 ref . Lick Observatory purchased the telescope in 1950. ref http adsabs.harvard.edu full 1950PASP...62...37S Report from the Lick Observatory, University of California ref References references coord 37 20 30.85 N 121 38 24.60 W display title Category Lick Observatory ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 The M49 observation telescope is a 20 power daytime telescope currently used by the military of the United States US military . It is used for making ground observations of a target area and effectiveness of artillery artillery fire . It does not have a mil dot reticle and is usually supported by the M 15 Tripod. DEFAULTSORT M49 Telescope Category Modern military equipment of the United States Category Military personal equipment US mil stub ... more details
Image Gregory Teleskop.svg thumb 370px Diagram of the lightpath through a Gregorian telescope. The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scotland Scottish mathematician and astronomer ... in 1673 by Robert Hooke . The design pre dates the first practical reflecting telescope, the Newtonian telescope , built by Sir Isaac Newton in 1668, ref name books.google.com http books.google.com books?id 32IDpTdthm4C&pg PA67&lpg PA67&dq newton reflecting telescope 1668 letter 1669&source bl&ots ... 5 years after Newton s Newton s Reflector first reflecting telescope . History The Gregorian telescope ... Cavalieri Lo Specchio Ustorio On Burning Mirrors , 1632 ref Stargazer, the Life and Times of the Telescope ... attempts to build the telescope failed, since he had no practical skill himself and he could find ... telescope consists of two concave mirror s the primary mirror a concave paraboloid collects the light ... the primary mirror. This design of telescope renders an upright image, making it useful for terrestrial ... telescope . It is still used for some spotting scope s because this design creates an erect ... reaching the secondary mirror and subsequent optical components. The Solar Optical Telescope on the Hinode satellite is one example of this design. For Amateur telescope making amateur telescope makers ... is Amateur telescope making Foucault test Foucault testable like the primary, which is not the case with the Cassegrain s convex secondary. Gallery gallery File Gregorian telescope circa 1735 in Putnam Gallery, 2009 11 24.jpg A Gregorian telescope circa 1735 File Gregorian telescope circa 1735 in Putnam Gallery 2, 2009 11 24.jpg Side view Image Lanature1873 telescope gregory.png 1873 diagram of a Gregorian telescope gallery Examples The Green Bank Telescope , the Arecibo Observatory , and the Allen Telescope Array are all radio telescopes employing off axis Gregorian optics. The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope , the Magellan telescopes , and the Large Binocular Telescope use Gregorian ... more details
File Zenith Telescope.jpg thumb right upright Zenith Telescope A zenith telescope is a type of telescope that is designed to point straight up at or near the zenith . They are used for precision measurement of star positions, to simplify telescope construction, or both. A classic zenith telescope, also known as a zenith sector employs a strong altazimuth mount , fitted with levelling screws. Extremely sensitive levels are attached to the telescope mount to make angle measurements and the telescope has an eyepiece fitted with a micrometer . ref http www.1911encyclopedia.org Geodesy 1911encyclopedia.org,Geodesy ref They are used for the measurement of small differences of zenith distance, and used in the determination of astronomic latitude . Other types of zenith telescopes include the Monument to the Great Fire of London that included a central shaft meant for use as a zenith telescope. High precision and fixed building zenith telescopes were also used until about early 1980s to track Earth s north pole position e.g. Earth s rotation axis position. Since then radio astronomy radio astronomical quasar measurements have also measured Earth s rotation axis several orders of magnitude more accurately than optical tracking. NASA Orbital Debris Observatory , which used a 3 m diameter aperture liquid mirror , and the Large Zenith Telescope uses a 6 m diameter aperture liquid mirror ref http adsabs.harvard.edu abs 1998astro.ph..4267C ref are both zenith telescopes since the use of liquid mirror meant these telescopes could only point straight up. References reflist See also List of telescope types External links http www.mhs.ox.ac.uk students 96to97 zenith.htm Zenith Sector by John Bird Category Telescope types de Zenitteleskop es Telescopio cenital ja ru fi Zeniittikaukoputki ... more details
Refimprove date October 2009 Infobox magazine title Sky & Telescope image file Sky&telescope mar 2005.jpg image size 195px image alt image caption The front cover of the March 2005 issue. editor editor title previous editor staff writer frequency Monthly total circulation 77,382 circulation year 2011 category Astronomy company Sky Publishing Corporation publisher firstdate 1941 country United States based language English website http www.skyandtelescope.com Sky & Telescope issn 0037 6604 Sky & Telescope S&T is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy , including the following current events in astronomy and space exploration events in the amateur astronomy community reviews of astronomical equipment, books, and computer software amateur telescope making hobby amateur telescope making and astrophotography . The articles are intended for the informed lay reader and include detailed discussions of current discoveries, frequently by participating scientists. The magazine is illustrated in full color, with both amateur and professional photography of celestial sights, as well as tables and charts of upcoming celestial events. Sky & Telescope began publication in 1941, as the result of the merger of the separate magazines, The Sky magazine The Sky and The Telescope . ref cite web last Federer first Charles A. url title The Story of The Sky work Sky & Telescope issue 75 pages 461 63 date November 1986 ref It is currently published by Sky Publishing Corporation , a division of New Track Media , LLC, ref cite web url http www.newtrackmedia.com Press Sky.html ... an important role in the dissemination of knowledge about amateur telescope making telescope making ... magazine Astronomy . See also Amateur astronomy Amateur telescope making References reflist External ... & Telescope fa fr Sky & Telescope ko it Sky & Telescope lb Sky & Telescope ja & pl Sky & Telescope fi Sky & Telescope zh ... more details
Infobox telescope name Hexapod Telescope background image Image Hpt 2006.jpg 250px Hexapod Telescope enclosure and control building on Cerro Armazones caption Hexapod Telescope on Cerro Armazones organization Ruhr University Bochum location Cerro Armazones Observatory coords Coord 24.5984 70.2011 region CL AT type landmark display inline,title altitude Convert 2817 m ft weather wavelength Optical built 1999 first light 2006 Chile website URL http www.astro.ruhr uni bochum.de astro oca AIRUB Observatorio Cerro Armazones style Ritchey Chr tien diameter 1.5 m diameter2 diameter3 angular resolution area focal length mounting Hexapod dome Roll away commons Page or category name at Commons The Hexapod Telescope HPT is a telescope located at Cerro Armazones Observatory in northern Chile . ref name HPT The convert 1.5 m in Ritchey Chr tien telescope Ritchey Chr tien reflecting telescope is notable for the design of telescope mount . Instead of the typical mounting where the telescope moves on two rotating axes, the mirror end of the telescope is supported by six extensible struts, an arrangement known as a Stewart platform . This configuration allows the telescope to move in all six spatial degrees of freedom and also provides strong structural integrity. ref name 2000CHIN As a result, the ratio ... telescope is much more complex than with conventional telescope mounts. The mounting was designed ... See also Array for Microwave Background Anisotropy Telescope mount References Reflist refs ref name HPT cite web url http www.astro.ruhr uni bochum.de astro oca hpt.html title Hexapod Telescope publisher ... Telescope title Proceedings of SPIE year 2006 last1 Steiner first1 Ingo volume 6269 pages 62692W ref ref name 2000CHIN cite journal bibcode 2000RvMA...13..257C title The Hexapod Telescope ... Telescope A New Way to Very Large Telescopes . In Progress in Telescope and Instrumentation Technologies , ESO Conference and Workshop Proceedings, ESO Conference on Progress in Telescope and Instrumentation ... more details
Infobox telescope name 40 foot telescope image File 40 foot telescope 120 cm 48 inch reflecting telescope William Herschel.png 200px Herschel s 40 foot telescope use full wikicode caption Herschel s 40 foot telescope organization location Slough , England coords altitude wavelength Optical built 1785 9 first light 19 February 1787 style Reflecting telescope diameter 48 inch angular resolution area focal length 40 ft mounting Alt azimuth commons Category 40 foot telescope William Herschel s 40 foot telescope , also known as the Great Forty Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed ... telescope in the world for 50 years. It may have been used to discover Enceladus moon ... the original mirror and a convert 10 ft m adj on section of the tube remain. Construction The telescope ... 40 ft m abbr on tube was made of iron . ref name nmm The telescope was mounted on a fully rotatable .... ref name nmm During construction, whilst the telescope tube lay on the ground, the King as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury visited the telescope. Just prior to them entering the open ... Mullaney Two convert 48 in cm adj on Curved mirror concave metal mirrors were made for the telescope ..., however Herschel found it to be much too thin to keep its figure when put into the telescope ref ... telescope. Herschel eliminated the small diagonal mirror of a standard newtonian reflector ... in an observing cage directly in front of the telescope. This saved on the severe light loss the image ... a Reflecting telescope Herschelian telescope Herschelian telescope . ref name imss Use The telescope .... ref name nmm The First light astronomy first observation with the telescope was on 19 February 1787, when Herschel pointed the then incomplete telescope towards the Orion nebula , which he observed by crawling into the telescope and using a hand held eyepiece ref name 1927Steavenson ref name making Cquote The apparatus for the 40 foot telescope was by this time so far completed that I could put ... more details
Image Mercator telescope.jpg right thumb 280px The Mercator Telescope looking out over a sea of clouds as seen from the top of the Swedish Solar Telescope The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 metre m telescope , operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Leuven University , Belgium, in collaboration with the Observatory of the University of Geneva . It is named after Gerard Mercator , famous cartographer. The telescope contains two different measuring devices. First of all, there is the MeropeII CCD camera . This camera has a size of 2k by 6k pixel s Frame Transfer detector originally designed for ESA s canceled Eddington space mission. The filters used together with this camera are according to the so called geneva photometric system . The second instrument on the Mercator Telescope is the HERMES echelle spectrograph . It covers a wavelength range between 380 and 875 nanometer nm with a spectral resolution of R 85000 ref http www.mercator.iac.es instruments hermes RaskinHERMES.pdf ref . The P7 photometer was active from May 2001 until July 2008. The photometer measured in the 7 band Geneva photometric system. It measured the star in one channel and the sky in another so that the sky can be subtracted. The filter wheel is turning at a rate of 4 Hertz Hz , changing between the filters of the photometric system. It is sited at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma . The Swiss Euler 1.2m Telescope and the Mercator Telescope were part of the Southern Sky extrasolar Planet search Programme which has discovered numerous extrasolar planets. ref http obswww.unige.ch udry planet coralie.html ref For other large telescopes of the period see List of largest optical telescopes in the 20th century . External links http www.mercator.iac.es Mercator Telescope homepage http hermes.ster.kuleuven.be The HERMES project page coord 28.76234 N 17.87855 W display title source nlwiki References references Category Telescopes Category Astronomical ... more details
A network telescope also known as a darknet , Internet motion sensor or black hole ref name ieee cite web url http ieeexplore.ieee.org xpls abs all.jsp?arnumber 1550875 title Defining and Evaluating Greynet s Sparse Darknets publisher ieeexplore.ieee.org accessdate 2008 06 24 ref is an Internet system that allows one to observe different large scale events taking place on the Internet. The basic idea is to observe traffic targeting the dark unused address space of the network. Since all traffic to these addresses is suspicious, one can gain information about possible network attacks random scanning worms, and DDoS Internet background noise Backscatter Noise backscatter as well as other misconfigurations by observing it. The resolution of the Internet telescope is dependent on the number of dark addresses it monitors. For example, a large Internet telescope that monitors traffic to 16,777,216 addresses a 8 Internet telescope in IPv4 , has a higher probability of observing a relatively small event than a smaller telescope that monitors 65,536 addresses a 16 Internet telescope . A variant of a network telescope is a sparse darknet, or greynet, consisting of a region of IP address space that is sparsely populated with darknet addresses interspersed with active or lit IP addresses. ref name ieee See also Honeypot computing External links http www.caida.org research security telescope CAIDA Network Telescope Research http www.simwood.com 2011 08 an introduction to the simwood darknet Simwood eSMS Darknet Project http www.team cymru.org Services darknets.html Team Cymru Darknet Project References Moore et al. http www.caida.org publications papers 2004 tr 2004 04 tr 2004 04.pdf Network Telescopes Technical Report , 2004 reflist Category Internet terminology compu network stub ... more details
merge Solar observatory discuss Talk Solar telescope date February 2012 Image Swedish Solar Telescope.jpg right thumb 175px The Swedish Solar Telescope Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory , La Palma in the Canary Islands . A solar telescope is a special purpose telescope ... location San Francisco bibcode 2001ASPC..248..639S ref . Both the European Solar Telescope as well as the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope have larger apertures not only to increase the resolution ..., seeing is generally worse than for night time telescopes, because the ground around the telescope ... built on towers and the structures are painted white. The Dutch Open Telescope is built on an open ... the telescopes main mirror. Another solar telescope specific problem is the heat generated by the tightly ... telescopes. For the upcoming Advanced Technology Solar Telescope ATST , the heat load is 2.5 MW m sup ... not to induce any additional turbulence inside the telescope s dome. Professional solar observatories may have main optical elements with very long focal length s although not always, Dutch Open Telescope ... the telescope. However, this is not possible for apertures over 1 meter, at which the pressure difference ... Telescope EST and Advanced Technology Solar Telescope ATST have active cooling of the dome to minimize the temperature difference between the air inside and outside the telescope. Because the Sun travels ... the McMath Pierce Solar Telescope . Selected solar telescopes See also List of solar telescopes The Einstein Tower Einsteinturm became operational in 1924 McMath Pierce Solar Telescope 1.6 m diameter, 1961 McMath Hulbert Observatory 24 61 cm diameter, 1941 1979 Swedish Vacuum Solar Telescope 47.5 cm diameter, 1985 2000 Swedish Solar Telescope Swedish 1 m Solar Telescope 1 m diameter, 2002 Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope 1.63 m diameter, 1969 Mount Wilson Observatory Dutch Open Telescope ... cm Vacuum Tower Telescope 1989 and the 1.5 m GREGOR solar telescope nearing completion As of 2007 ... more details
Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name Magnetic Telescope series Superman 1940s cartoons Superman image Magnetictelescope1.JPG caption Title card from Magnetic Telescope director Dave Fleischer story artist Dan Gordon animator Dan Gordon br Carl Meyer writer Carl Meyer animator Thomas Moore br Myron Waldman voice actor Bud Collyer br Joan Alexander br Julian Noa musician Sammy Timberg producer Max Fleischer studio Fleischer Studios distributor Paramount Pictures release date April 24, 1942 USA color process Technicolor runtime 8 min. one reel preceded by The Bulleteers 1942 followed by Electric Earthquake 1942 movie language English The Magnetic Telescope is the sixth of the seventeen animated ... earth by a magnetic telescope. It was originally released 24 April 1942. ref name imdb http imdb.com title tt0035014 The Magnetic Telescope 1942 Bot generated title ref Plot The story begins with Clark ... s archnemesis Dr. Sivana demonstration of his magnetic telescope . A giant, u shaped magnet connected to the telescope is pointed at a comet and turned on, drawing the comet towards the observers .... He runs into his telescope room and shuts the door before the police can stop him, and begins his .... Image Magnetictelescope6.JPG thumb 200px left The magnetic telescope controlling a comet. As the police ..., and takes a cab to get to the telescope. As he nears the building, pieces of the comet destroy ... again, falling into the telescope s generator room. He notices the metal bar in it and removes it, then winds ... into space just in time. We then see Superman s silhouette in the telescope control room, and Lois ... PlayList&p 853A479857D842AD&index 5 Watch The Magnetic Telescope bcdb title 1685 http www.archive.org details magnetic telescope The Magnetic Telescope at the Internet Archive http www.imdb.com title tt0035014 The Magnetic Telescope at the Internet Movie Database Supermanshorts DEFAULTSORT Magnetic Telescope Category Superman animated shorts Category 1942 films ... more details
Refimprove date April 2008 Image Zeiss di Merate pilastro sud.jpg thumb right 1 meter Zeiss telescope at Merate Astronomical Observatory , Merate LC , Italy. South support A telescope mount is a mechanical structure which supports a telescope . Telescope mounts are designed to support the mass of the telescope ... as the Earth rotates. Fixed mounts Fixed telescope mounts are entirely fixed in one position, such as Zenith telescope s that point only straight up and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory s Green Bank fixed radio horn telescope horn built to observe Cygnus X 1 . Fixed altitude mounts ... PA236&dq 22alt alt 22 telescope mount&hl en&ei tyN4TdasMarC0QH2wI3vBg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum ... axis. This allows the telescope to view the whole sky, but only when the Earth s rotation allows the objects ... of mount is used in Transit telescope s, designed for precision astronomical measurement. Transit ... one axis very difficult, such as large radio telescope s. ref http books.google.com books?id wOpaUFQFwTwC&pg PA44&lpg PA44&dq radio telescope transit mount&source bl&ots D PJJkE4Cw&sig H2lYYo4j9aGl24C67PPOCJuc4i8 ... William Herschel s convert 49 in mm sing on 40 foot telescope on an altazimuth mount. Altazimuth, altitude ..., side to side, as separate motions. This mechanically simple mount was used in early telescope designs ... tracking has also made it a popular telescope mount used in amateur astronomy . ref http planetfacts.org altazimuth mount Altazimuth Telescope Mount . Planetfacts.org. Accessed April 13, 2012. ref ... other limitations. The telescope s field of view rotates at varying speed as the telescope tracks, whilst the telescope body does not, requiring a system to counter rotate the field of view when used ... s Lecture Notes Astronomical Techniques Telescope Mountings ref Alt alt altitude altitude mounts File ... Techniques Telescope Mountings ref These mounts may include a third azimuth axis an altitude altitude ... to Earth s polar axis that allows the telescope to swing in an east west arc, with a second ... more details
Taxobox name Telescope hornsnail image status VU status system IUCN2.3 status ref ref Bogan A. E. 1996 . http www.iucnredlist.org search details.php 17705 all Pleurocera walkeri . http www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 7 August 2007. ref regnum Animal ia phylum Mollusca classis Gastropoda unranked superfamilia clade Caenogastropoda br clade Sorbeoconcha superfamilia Cerithioidea familia Pleuroceridae genus Pleurocera species P. walkeri binomial Pleurocera walkeri binomial authority Goodrich , 1928 synonyms The telescope hornsnail Pleurocera walkeri is a species of gastropod in the Pleuroceridae family. It is Endemism endemic to the United States . References reflist DEFAULTSORT Telescope Hornsnail Category Fauna of the United States Category Pleuroceridae Pleuroceridae stub es Pleurocera walkeri pt Pleurocera walkeri vi Telescope hornsnail ... more details
The MONS Telescope has 50cm diameter and was constructed by the University of Mons Belgium in 1972 for night observation purposes. It is located at Observatorio del Teide on Tenerife , and is operated by the Instituto de Astrof sica de Canarias . The telescope was at first used by the Department of Astrophysics in Universidad de La Laguna and is still oriented for educational purposes. Many colleges request observation time for their student s projects. It s also used by groups of amateur astronomers. See also List of largest optical telescopes in the 20th century Belgium External links http www.ot admin.net mons index.php?lang en Mons Telescope webpage Category Telescopes observatory stub ... more details
Operation Telescope was also the original name for the World War Two Operation Copperhead . Operation Telescope was the name for the conventional seaborne landing which, with 16 Parachute Brigade s parachute onto Gamal airfield in Operation Cordage, formed the initial stages of the Anglo French invasion of Egypt during the 1956 Suez Crisis . That invasion s later stages were covered by the operational name Operation Musketeer 1956 Operation Musketeer . Sources http www.helis.com database ops 4 http www.britains smallwars.com Yahia2 Part3.htm http books.google.com books?id fF08wntWCxIC&pg PA42&lpg PA42&dq 22Operation Telescope 22 suez wikipedia&source bl&ots 9HwuDAGtxx&sig nEhJlFHsaHiLa5Yu6lII0U1GUzk&hl en&ei ciAWTJYenPrTBPj9jYkK&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 7&ved 0CC4Q6AEwBg v onepage&q&f false Category Suez Crisis pl Operacja Teleskop ... more details
Image EightInchTelescope.JPG thumb right 200px Eight Inch refracting telescope Chabot Space and Science Center An optical telescope is a telescope which is used to gather and Focus optics focus light mainly ... sensor s. There are three primary types of optical telescope Refractor telescope Refractors which use lens optics lenses dioptrics , Reflector telescope reflectors which use mirror s catoptrics , and catadioptric ... in combination. A telescope s light gathering power and ability to resolve small detail is directly ... and focuses the light . The larger the objective, the more light the telescope can collect and the finer detail it can resolve. History main History of the telescope The telescope is more ... telescope.html galileo.rice.edu The Galileo Project Science The Telescope by Al Van Helden the telescope ... reached a significantly advanced state by the time of the telescope s invention in early modern Europe ... 0GOT5dCTU8&sig U uj1p9TvkAW12XFz8mkfI6TWMg PPA27,M1 The History of the Telescope By Henry .... of Chicago Pr., 1976 , pp. 94 99 ref But the most significant step cited in the invention of the telescope ... Science The Telescope by Al Van Helden ref ref http books.google.com books?id peIL7hVQUmwC&pg PA218 ... sci instruments telescope.html galileo.rice.edu The Galileo Project Science The Telescope by Al ... 0GOT5dCTU8&sig U uj1p9TvkAW12XFz8mkfI6TWMg PPA27,M1 The History of the Telescope By Henry C. King, Page 27 spectacles invention, an important step in the history of the telescope ref It is in the Netherlands in 1608 where the first recorded optical telescopes refracting telescope s appeared. The invention ... telescope.html galileo.rice.edu The Galileo Project Science The Telescope by Al Van Helden The Hague ... of Alkmaar... another citizen of Middelburg, Sacharias Janssen had a telescope at about the same ... upon these designs the following year and is generally credited with being the first to use a telescope for astronomical purposes. Galileo s telescope used Hans Lippershey s design of a convex ... more details
telescope on display at the Franklin Institute . A reflecting telescope also called a reflector is an optical telescope which uses a single or combination of curved mirror s that reflect light and form an image . The reflecting telescope was invented in the 17th century as an alternative to the refracting telescope which, at that time, was a design that suffered from severe chromatic aberration . Although ... catoptric telescope. History Main History of the telescope File NewtonsTelescopeReplica.jpg thumb 200px A replica of Newton s second reflecting telescope that he presented to the Royal Society in 1672 ... Soon after the invention of the refracting telescope , Galileo , Giovanni Francesco Sagredo , and others ... a telescope using a mirror as the image forming objective. ref http books.google.com books?id 2LZZginzib4C ... s 1663 published ideas for what came to be called the Gregorian telescope , ref http books.google.com ...&sig U uj1p9TvkAW12XFz8mkfI6TWMg PPA71,M1 The History of the Telescope By Henry C. King, Page 71 ref ... with building the Newton s reflector first reflecting telescope in 1668. ref name books.google.com http books.google.com books?id 32IDpTdthm4C&pg PA67&lpg PA67&dq newton reflecting telescope 1668 letter ... come to be known as the Newtonian telescope . Despite the theoretical advantages of the reflector ... in the 20th century, ref Silvering on a reflecting telescope was introduced by L on Foucault in 1857 ... vacuum evaporation. The first mirror he aluminized, in 1932, is the earliest known example of a telescope ... the problems of astronomical seeing seeing , and reflecting telescopes are ubiquitous on space telescope ... telescope s basic optical element that creates an image at the focal plane. The distance from the mirror ... books?id BA4riazAF5sC&pg PA21&dq spin cast telescope mirror&hl en&sa X&ei 6wz5Ts DOKrv0gHa76iXBQ ... in a reflecting telescope s optical design. File Sirius A and B Hubble photo.jpg left thumb 175px An image of Sirius A and Sirius B by the Hubble Space Telescope showing diffraction spikes and concentric ... more details
Infobox mountain name Telescope Peak photo TelescopePeak031411.jpg photo caption Telescope Peak viewed from Devil s Golfcourse, Death Valley, California. elevation ft 11043 elevation ref NAVD88 ref name ngs cite ngs id GS0799 designation Telescope accessdate 2009 01 21 ref prominence ft 6168 prominence ref ref name pb cite peakbagger pid 3662 name Telescope Peak, California accessdate 2012 04 01 ref parent peak Keynot Peak ref name loj cite loj id 16685 name Telescope Peak accessdate 2012 04 01 ref listing DPS Emblem peak ref name dps cite dps accessdate 2008 02 13 ref location Death Valley National Park , Inyo County, California Inyo County , California , United States USA range Panamint Range ... Geological Survey USGS Telescope Peak first ascent easiest route Trail from Mahogany Flat hiking hike Image PANAMINT.JPG thumb 290px right center Road map of the area of Telescope Peak. center File Telescope Peak Death Valley NP California.jpg thumb 290px right center Telescope Peak from the main trail. center Telescope Peak is the highest point within Death Valley National Park , in the US state ... for the great distance visible from the summit. Geography Telescope Peak is also notable for having ..., Telescope Peak also has a particularly high topographic prominence of convert 6168 ft 0 , ranking ... clearance, depending on weather conditions. Hiking Telescope Peak by the normal route involves a convert ... s Well elevation around convert 250 ft to Telescope Peak. This provides a net gain of elevation of roughly ... 450px center Panamint Valley , California , looking south. Telescope Peak is visible at left. center ... major summits of the United States References Reflist External links cite gnis id 250316 name Telescope Peak accessdate 2010 01 31 cite peakbagger pid 3662 name Telescope Peak, California accessdate 2010 01 31 cite summitpost id 150584 name Telescope Peak accessdate 2010 01 31 Death Valley Category ... Park high points de Telescope Peak fr Telescope Peak pl Telescope Peak ... more details
Telescope In 1800, William Herschel discovered infrared radiation. In 1878, Samuel Pierpoint ... bolometer. This invention, cooled by liquid helium , led the way for current infrared telescope development ... borne infrared telescopes. A more recent air borne infrared telescope to reach the stratosphere was NASA ... scientists and the German Aerospace Center scientists placed a 17 ton infrared telescope on a Boeing 747 jet airplane. ref Hamilton, J. 2010, July 2 NASA s flying telescope sees early success. National .... One of the most significant infrared telescope projects was the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ... NASA presently has solar powered spacecraft in space with an infrared telescope called the Wide ..., December 14 NASA launches infrared telescope to scan entire sky. Cable News Network . Retrieved from ... IRAS 1983 5 100 m Infrared Space Observatory ISO 1996 2.5 240 m Spitzer Space Telescope Spitzer ... m Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer WISE 2010 3 25 m James Webb Space Telescope JWST Planned 0.6 10 m div Existing infrared telescopes Infrared Telescope Facility , 1979 Gornergrat Infrared Telescope , 1979 2005 Infrared Optical Telescope Array , 1988 2006 United Kingdom Infrared Telescope , 1979 Spitzer Space Telescope , 2003 See also Infrared astronomy List of largest infrared telescopes List of telescope types Notes references Category Telescope types Category Infrared imaging astronomy ... more details
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