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A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was...

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope designed to conduct infrared astronomy. It is the largest telescope in space, and is equipped...

The Telescopes are an English noise, space rock, dream pop and psychedelic band formed in 1987 by artist, composer, and musician Stephen Lawrie, with band...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory under construction. When completed, it will be the world's largest optical and mid-infrared...

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as the Roman Space Telescope, Roman, or RST) is a NASA infrared space telescope that completed construction...

A refracting telescope (also called a refractor or dioptric telescope) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image...

also may refer to: The Telescopes, a British psychedelic band The Telescopes (album) Telescope (album), by Circle, 2007 The Telescope (album), by Her Space...

Telescopes with aperture diameter >8 metres This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of 3.0 metres (120 in) or greater...

The telescope, telescope goldfish or telescope eye (Chinese: 出目金; pinyin: Chū mù jīn) is a goldfish characterised by its protruding eyes. It was first...

thermoscope and the inventor of various military compasses. With an improved telescope he built, he observed the stars of the Milky Way, the phases of Venus...

The Arecibo Telescope was a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory located near...

The Lovell Telescope (/ˈlʌvəl/ LUV-əl) is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire, in the north-west of England. When construction...

A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image...

The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several...

contains two historically important telescopes: the 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope, which was the largest aperture telescope in the world from its completion...

space-based observatories including the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. The Launch Services Program oversees launch operations...

radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are...

following are lists of devices categorized as types of telescopes or devices associated with telescopes. They are broken into major classifications with many...

Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang...

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based, extremely large telescope currently under construction at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile's Atacama...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) is a proposal for an extremely large telescope (ELT), intended to be built on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai'i. Scientists...

Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg...

A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size...

types of optical telescope : Refracting telescopes, which use lenses and less commonly also prisms (dioptrics) Reflecting telescopes, which use mirrors...

The Newtonian telescope, also called the Newtonian reflector or just a Newtonian, is a type of reflecting telescope invented by the English scientist...

A space telescope (also known as space observatory) is a telescope in outer space used to observe astronomical objects. Suggested by Lyman Spitzer in 1946...

Magellan Telescopes are a pair of 6.5-metre-diameter (21 ft) optical telescopes located at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. The two telescopes are named...

An extremely large telescope (ELT) is an astronomical observatory featuring an optical telescope with an aperture for its primary mirror from 20 metres...

A Wolter telescope is a telescope for X-rays that only uses grazing incidence optics – mirrors that reflect X-rays at very shallow angles in the regime...

The Kepler space telescope was a space telescope launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Named after astronomer...

A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic...

the comet's surface to form its coma. Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and various interplanetary spacecraft suggest that the diameter of 3I/ATLAS's...

The Effelsberg 100-metre Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahr Hills (part of the Eifel) in Bad Münstereifel, Germany. Inaugurated in 1972, for...

Einstein Telescope (ET), is a proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detector, currently under study by some institutions in the...

The Hale Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f/3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer...

observatory in Chile with three telescopes built and operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Several other telescopes are also located at the site...

British-owned telescopes (such as the Isaac Newton Telescope, the Anglo-Dutch Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope, and the William Herschel Telescope) on the Canary...

the largest optical telescopes in the 20th century, paying special attention to the diameter of the mirror or lens of the telescope's objective, or aperture...

A network telescope (also known as a packet telescope, darknet, Internet motion sensor or black hole) is an Internet system that allows one to observe...

Observatory (/ˈdʒɒdrəl/ JOD-rəl) in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University...

An X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere...

The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory in the 17th century, and first...

(RE6). Other neutrino telescopes designed for use in the nearby area include the Greek NESTOR telescope and the Italian NEMO telescope, which are both in...

The Maksutov (also called a "Mak") is a catadioptric telescope design that combines a spherical mirror with a weakly negative meniscus lens in a design...

Subaru Telescope (すばる望遠鏡, Subaru Bōenkyō) is the 8.2-metre (320 in) telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea...

Amateur telescope making is the activity of building telescopes as a hobby, as opposed to being a paid professional. Amateur telescope makers (sometimes...

Eye to the Telescope is the debut studio album by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, originally released on 13 December 2004 and re-released 10 January...

The Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) is an optical telescope for astronomy located on 10,700-foot (3,300 m) Mount Graham, in the Pinaleno Mountains of...

Telescope Peak (Timbisha: Chiombe) is the highest point within Death Valley National Park, in the U.S. state of California. It is also the highest point...

This is a list of radio telescopes – over one hundred – that are or have been used for radio astronomy. The list includes both single dishes and interferometric...

The Bok Telescope (also known as the 90-inch) is the largest telescope operated solely by Steward Observatory.[dubious – discuss] It finds much use from...

A quantum telescope is a concept for a telescope aimed at overcoming the diffraction limit of traditional telescopes by exploiting some properties of quantum...

Integrated Neutral Gas Observations) is a 40 m (130 ft) transit radio telescope currently under construction that will observe redshifted hydrogen line...

A solar telescope or a solar observatory is a special-purpose telescope used to observe the Sun. Solar telescopes usually detect light with wavelengths...

suitable KBOs using ground telescopes. Large ground telescopes with wide-field cameras, notably the twin 6.5-meter Magellan Telescopes in Chile, the 8.2-meter...

refracting lens telescopes in North America: Optical telescopes only Some of the largest at observatories: Lists of telescopes List of radio telescopes List of...

list of large optical telescopes. For telescopes larger than 3 meters in aperture see List of largest optical reflecting telescopes. This list combines...

The telescope octopus (Amphitretus pelagicus) is a species of pelagic octopus found in tropical and subtropical regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

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...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), is an astronomical observatory in Coquimbo Region, Chile. Its main...

An aerial telescope is a type of very long focal length refracting telescope, built in the second half of the 17th century, that did not use a tube. Instead...

A telescope mount is a mechanical structure which supports a telescope. Telescope mounts are designed to support the mass of the telescope and allow for...

astronomy, "GoTo" refers to a type of telescope mount and related software that can automatically point a telescope at astronomical objects that the user...

"Telescope" is a song recorded by American actress Hayden Panettiere. The song was written by Hillary Lindsey and Cary Barlowe. It was released to country...

west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. With more than twenty optical and two radio telescopes, it is one of the largest gatherings of astronomical instruments in the...

Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation for an extremely large telescope, which was...

The Magnetic Telescope (1942) is the sixth of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally...

The 22-metre Mopra Radio Telescope, located near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility, operated by CSIRO...

A phase telescope or Bertrand lens is an optical device used in aligning the various optical components of a light microscope. In particular it allows...

The Radcliffe Telescope is a 74 in (1.9 m) optical/near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Sutherland...

Large Telescope (VLT), the largest telescope on Paranal, is composed of four separate 8.2 m (320 in) telescopes. In addition, the four main telescopes can...

Refracting telescopes use a lens to focus light. The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, with a lens diameter of 43 inches, is technically the largest, with...

list below is split between telescopes located in Australia, and telescopes sponsored by Australia such as a space telescope or foreign installation. Australia...

The Liverpool Telescope (LT) is a two-metre-aperture robotic Ritchey–Chrétien telescope that observes autonomously (without human intervention). However...

The Ryle Telescope (named after Martin Ryle, and formerly known as the 5-km Array) was a linear east-west radio telescope array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy...

established the global telescope version of Las Cumbres Observatory. LCO initially acquired the two Faulkes 2-meter telescopes. Faulkes Telescope North (FTN) located...

He collaborated on prominent NASA telescope missions including the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer...

it would decommission the telescope. The telescope collapsed on December 1, 2020. In 2022, the NSF announced the telescope would not be rebuilt, with...

Arago telescope (Lunette Arago) is a 38 cm (15 inch) aperture refracting telescope at Paris Observatory, installed in 1857. Francois Arago ordered this...

The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory...

The Nasmyth telescope, also called Nasmyth–Cassegrain or Cassegrain–Nasmyth, is a reflecting telescope developed by the Scottish inventor James Nasmyth...

diffracting around the support vanes of the secondary mirror in reflecting telescopes, or edges of non-circular camera apertures, and around eyelashes and eyelids...

The Hexapod-Telescope (HPT) was a 1.5-metre (59 in) Ritchey-Chrétien optical telescope, that operated in 2006-2017 in the Cerro Armazones Observatory (OCA)...

Urbain Le Verrier. Neptune was subsequently directly observed with a telescope on 23 September 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle within a degree of the...

The Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) is a 3.9-metre equatorially mounted telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory and situated at...

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope is a 4-meter telescope located inside the premises of Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences...

lens refracting telescope, the largest refractor ever successfully used for astronomical observation. The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope in the Canary Islands...

IACT (imaging atmospheric [or air] Cherenkov telescope [or technique]) is a device or method to detect very-high-energy gamma ray photons in the photon...

Research Telescope, which is situated on Cerro Pachón. Other telescopes on Cerro Tololo include the 1.5 m, 1.3 m, 1.0 m, and 0.9 m telescopes operated...

refracting telescopes List of optical telescopes List of proposed space telescopes List of radio telescopes List of solar telescopes List of space telescopes List...

Radio Telescope is a historical radio telescope in the Eifel mountain range in Germany, situated 12 km from the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope. Germany's...

Murriyang, the 64 m CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope also known as "The Dish", along with two smaller radio telescopes. The 64 m dish was one of several radio...

Gamma Ray Observatory, or by specialized telescopes called atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Cherenkov telescopes do not detect the gamma rays directly but...

HST-SM4 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4), was the fifth and final Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The launch of...

black hole was imaged using data collected in 2017 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), with a final, processed image released on 10 April 2019. In March 2021...

A Compton telescope (also known as Compton camera or Compton imager) is a gamma-ray detector which utilizes Compton scattering to determine the origin...

The largest infrared telescopes for infrared astronomy are listed in terms of diameter of primary mirror. The infrared spectrum with its longer wavelength...

"mainstream" radio telescope observations as a "piggy-back" or "commensal" program, using large radio telescopes including the NRAO 90m telescope at Green Bank...

Euclid is a wide-angle space telescope with a 600-megapixel camera to record visible light, a near-infrared spectrometer, and photometer, to determine...

The Craig telescope was a large telescope built in the 1850s, and while much larger than previous refracting telescopes, it had some problems that hampered...

An infrared telescope is a telescope that uses infrared light to detect celestial bodies. Infrared light is one of several types of radiation present in...

This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...

The telescope shiner (Notropis telescopus) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish beloinging to the family Leuciscidae, the shiners, daces and minnows...

The Klevtsov–Cassegrain telescope is a type of catadioptric Cassegrain telescope that uses a spherical primary mirror and a sub-aperture secondary corrector...

observatory operates several telescopes, including the 200-inch (5.1 m) Hale Telescope, the 48-inch (1.2 m) Samuel Oschin telescope (dedicated to the Zwicky...

German parts of the project which were primarily science-and telescope-related. SOFIA's telescope saw first light on May 26, 2010. SOFIA was the successor...

Most optical telescopes are housed within a dome or similar structure, to protect the delicate instruments from the elements. Telescope domes have a slit...

manufactured, imported and distributed telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, microscopes, CCD cameras, and telescope accessories for the consumer market...

William Herschel's 40-foot telescope, also known as the Great Forty-Foot telescope, was a reflecting telescope constructed between 1785 and 1789 at Observatory...

8.1-metre (26.6 ft) telescopes, Gemini North and Gemini South, situated in Hawaii and Chile, respectively. These twin telescopes offer extensive coverage...

Submillimeter Telescope (SMT), formerly known as the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope, is a submillimeter wavelength radio telescope located on Mount...

The Greenland Telescope is a radio telescope situated at the Pituffik Space Base in north-western Greenland. It will later be deployed at the Summit Station...

the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain a patent for it. It is, however, unclear if he was the first one to build a telescope. Lipperhey...

The Orgov Radio-Optical Telescope, also known as ROT54 or the Herouni Mirror Radio Telescope, is a radio telescope in Orgov, Armenia. It was built between...

South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-metre (390 in) diameter telescope located at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica. The telescope is designed...

The Telescope (French: La lunette d'approche) is a 1963 oil on canvas painting by René Magritte. The painting depicts a window through which a partly...

(80 km) west of Socorro. The VLA comprises 28 25-meter (82 ft) radio telescopes (27 of which are operational while one is always rotating through maintenance)...

an interest in astronomy in 1766, Herschel constructed his first large telescope in 1774, after which he spent nine years carrying out sky surveys to investigate...

The Schwarzschild telescope is a reflecting telescope with two aspherical concave mirrors. It was developed by Karl Schwarzschild and named after him...

observatory with two telescopes at an elevation of 4,145 meters (13,600 ft) near the summit of Mauna Kea in the U.S. state of Hawaii. Both telescopes have 10 m (33 ft)...

Sky & Telescope (S&T) is a monthly magazine covering all aspects of amateur and professional astronomy, including what to see in the sky tonight and new...

Telescope (foaled 25 January 2010) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He won one minor race as a two-year-old but was highly regarded...

Galileo Solar Space Telescope – Multi-mission Platform (GSST-PMM) is a mission proposed by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) that...

The Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT), formerly the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT), is a 4.3 m (170 in) aperture telescope owned and operated by Lowell...

interferometer or telescope array is a set of separate telescopes, mirror segments, or radio telescope antennas that work together as a single telescope to provide...

reasons. The multi-telescope "outrigger" proposed in 2006 was eventually canceled. A planned new telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), has attracted...

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is a multinational project to build a new generation of ground-based gamma-ray instruments in the energy...

The Yapp telescope is a 36-inch (3 foot / ~91.44 cm) reflecting telescope of the United Kingdom, now located at the Observatory Science Centre at Herstmonceux...

The Víctor M. Blanco Telescope, also known as the Blanco 4m, is a 4-metre aperture telescope located at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile...

The ETX ("Everybody's Telescope") is a line of smaller aperture telescopes (60mm to 125mm) made by Meade Instruments. The ETX started out as a 90 mm (3-1/2")...

The Sentinel Space Telescope was a space observatory to be developed by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for the B612 Foundation. The B612 Foundation is...

The Schmidt–Cassegrain is a catadioptric telescope that combines a Cassegrain reflector's optical path with a Schmidt corrector plate to make a compact...

Telescoping in mechanics describes the movement of one part sliding out from another, lengthening an object (such as a telescope or the lift arm of an...

detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial...

telescopes from different countries around the world because of the good astronomical seeing conditions. Later, the emphasis for optical telescopes shifted...

Binoculars or field glasses are two refracting telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both...

located sites for optical, infrared, and gamma-ray telescopes. It is the tenth-highest optical telescope in the world. The Indian Astronomical Observatory...

in 1965. There are many telescopes on site including: one 0.4 metre, two 0.6 metre, one 1.0 metre, and a 1.8 metre MOA telescope. The nearest population...

Ground-based solar telescopes are specialized telescopes used to observe the Sun from Earth's surface. Solar telescopes often have multiple focal lengths...

Hobby–Eberly Telescope (HET) is a 10-meter-aperture (33 ft) telescope located at the McDonald Observatory in Davis Mountains, Texas. The Hobby–Eberly Telescope is...

Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that depicts elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula...

The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was an infrared space telescope that was active between 2003 and 2020...

imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, telescopes, and other gadgets. Although scientific research may not be their primary...

Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) is a series of three books edited by Albert G. Ingalls between 1926 and 1953 while he was an associate editor at Scientific...

previously called the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, is a NASA three-telescope space observatory for studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and monitoring...

The Westerlund telescope was inaugurated in 2004. and is named after Bengt Westerlund (1921–2008). The telescope belongs to Uppsala Astronomical Observatory...

the National Observatory of Athens. It is home of one of the largest telescopes in Greece, a 1.23 metres (48 in) Cassegrain reflector, which was used...

The Argunov–Cassegrain telescope is a catadioptric telescope design first introduced in 1972 by P. P. Argunov. All optics are spherical, and the classical...

describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an eye, to distinguish small details of an...

the telescope to be completely rolled back, allowing it to cool down very quickly in order to improve observation. The Multiple Mirror Telescope operated...

The Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) is a Southern Hemisphere-based United States Space Force telescope used for detecting, tracking, and cataloguing...

Giant Ukrainian Radio Telescope (GURT, Ukrainian: Гігантський Український Радіотелескопcode: ukr promoted to code: uk , ГУРТcode: ukr promoted to code:...

Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), located near Narayangaon, Pune in India, is an array of thirty fully steerable parabolic radio telescopes of 45 metre diameter...

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is a submillimetre-wavelength radio telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii, US. The telescope is near the summit...

reflecting telescope built by Sir Isaac Newton in 1668 is a landmark in the history of telescopes, being the first known reflecting telescope. It was the...

digital planetarium as well as an historic 93⁄4-inch Cooke refractor telescope, through which evening visitors can observe a variety of Solar System...

advanced telescopes. These include the 3.6 m New Technology Telescope, an early pioneer in the use of active optics, and the Very Large Telescope (VLT),...

Space Telescope Science Institute. It is primarily funded by NASA's Origins Program and the Director's Discretionary Fund of the Space Telescope Science...

A balloon-borne telescope is a type of airborne telescope, a sub-orbital astronomical telescope that is suspended below one or more stratospheric balloons...

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST, also FGRST), formerly called the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), is a space observatory being...

The Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) is located in Muthorai near Ooty, in South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is part of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics...

radio emission with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope, and the Very Large Array revealed ordered magnetic...

WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is an open-source set of applications, data and cloud services, originally created by Microsoft Research but now an open source...

Optical Telescope Element (OTE) is one of three major sections of the James Webb Space Telescope, a large infrared space telescope launched on 25 December...

The James Gregory Telescope was constructed in 1962 by the University of St Andrews. It is of a Schmidt-Cassegrain design and is fitted with a CCD camera...

supermassive black holes have been directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope; these are Sagittarius A*, at the center of the Milky Way, and the black...

Alice P. Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian...

Liquid-mirror telescopes are telescopes with mirrors made with a reflective liquid. The most common liquid used is mercury, but other liquids will work...

function is to conduct research in astronomy and astrophysics. The primary telescopes are located in Sutherland, which is 370 kilometres (230 mi) from Observatory...

The Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) is an instrument on the SOHO spacecraft used to obtain high-resolution images of the solar corona in the...

Newton Telescope Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope Liverpool Telescope (2003– ) MAGIC MASCARA Mercator Telescope Nordic Optical Telescope Swedish Solar Telescope Wide...

The Swedish Solar Telescope (SST), also known as the Swedish 1-meter Solar Telescope, is a refracting solar telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...

The Butterfly telescope goldfish (Teichfischer, 1994) is a variant of telescope goldfish that is distinguished by the butterfly-shaped caudal fins when...

A liquid-mirror space telescope is a concept for a reflecting space telescope that uses a reflecting liquid such as mercury as its primary reflector....

Telescopes or ING consists of three optical telescopes: the William Herschel Telescope, the Isaac Newton Telescope, and the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope...

Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes, later renamed to MAGIC Florian Goebel Telescopes) is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes situated at the...

and worthy of an observatory being built on Pine Mountain. The first telescope became operational in 1967. Former programs gave high-school students...

frequency-modulated radio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico on 16 November 1974. The message was aimed at the current...

or airship with an astronomical telescope. By carrying the telescope to a sufficiently high altitude, the telescope can avoid cloud cover, pollution...

The Belleville Telescope is a local newspaper in Belleville, Kansas. It was the first paper in Republic County, established September 20, 1870, by J....

McMath–Pierce solar telescope is a 1.6 m f/54 reflecting solar telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, United States. Built in 1962, the...

The Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) (Spanish: Gran Telescopio Milimétrico, or GTM), officially the Large Millimeter Telescope Alfonso Serrano (Spanish:...

consortium in the past. It has two reflecting telescopes, the 2.4-meter (95 inches aperture Hiltner Telescope (since 1986), used for galactic surveys, and...

The CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) is a space telescope being mainly used to perform high precision observations of electrons and gamma rays....

most likely due to incorrect estimation of the telescope's sensitivity. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is searching for similar gamma rays. In 2009...

survey telescope (CSST) (Chinese: 巡天空间望远镜; pinyin: Xúntiān Kōngjiān Wàngyuǎnjìng) is a Chinese space telescope under development. The telescope will feature...

Tower Telescope – Solar telescope on Tenerife operated by KIS Swedish Solar Telescope – Telescope on La Plama, Canary Islands Dutch Open Telescope – Solar...

appropriate response. Most asteroids are discovered by a camera on a telescope with a wide field of view. Image differencing software compares a recent...

The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS1; obs. code: F51 and Pan-STARRS2 obs. code: F52) located at Haleakala Observatory...

The Great Melbourne Telescope was built by the Grubb Telescope Company in Dublin, Ireland in 1868, and installed at the Melbourne Observatory in Melbourne...

ground-based and other space-based observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to give more insight into exoplanet traits, such as...

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) is a proposal by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) to create an ultra-long-wavelength (that is,...

museum and a café, a reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world for decades and a modern radio telescope. There has been a castle on the...

"The Other End (of the Telescope)" is a song by American band 'Til Tuesday, which was released in 1988 on their third and final studio album Everything's...

The Orion space telescopes were a series of two instruments flown aboard Soviet spacecraft during the 1970s to conduct ultraviolet spectroscopy of stars...

Reconnaissance Office (NRO) donated two identical space telescopes to NASA. These telescopes were built under the Future Imagery Architecture program...

commonly known as LUVOIR (/luːˈvwɑːr/), is a multi-wavelength space telescope concept being developed by NASA under the leadership of a Science and...

The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), formerly known as the One Hectare Telescope (1hT), is a radio telescope array dedicated to astronomical observations and...

The Coudé Auxiliary Telescope (CAT) is a coudé focus telescope located at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, south of Shane Dome, Tycho Brahe...

The C. Donald Shane telescope is a 120-inch (3.05-meter) reflecting telescope located at the Lick Observatory in Mount Hamilton, California. It was named...

Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610. Until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that the Milky...

devices for consumer, industrial, aerospace, and military markets. Its telescopes produced for the consumer market were sold under the brand name "Questar"...

The William Herschel Telescope (WHT) is a 4.20-metre (165 in) optical and near-infrared reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...

with the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991–2000), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (2003–2020). The telescope is named after the...

The Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope (CCAT) is a proposed 25-metre-diameter (82 ft) telescope that is intended to reveal the cosmic origins of stars...

The 3.6m Devasthal (Hindi: देवस्थल) Optical Telescope is a clear-aperture Ritchey–Chrétien telescope built by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational...

Optical Telescope (NOT) is an astronomical telescope located at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma in the Canary Islands. The telescope saw first...

nebulae invisible to the human eye. Specialized and ever-larger optical telescopes were constructed as essentially big cameras to record images on photographic...

flew by the planet. Though nowadays it can be resolved and observed by telescopes, there is much desire to revisit the planet, as shown by Planetary Science...

The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a telescope located at ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed in an enclosure...

Submarine Telescope with Oceanographic Research Project) is an international scientific collaboration whose target is the deployment of a neutrino telescope on...

The Reber Radio Telescope is a historic radio telescope, located at the Green Bank Observatory near Green Bank, West Virginia, United States. Built in...

a historic manufacturer of telescopes, active in the 19th and 20th centuries. They built numerous large research telescopes, including several that were...

The Telescope was a magazine for amateur astronomers published between 1931 and 1941. The magazine was first published as a quarterly under the editorship...

Schopenhauer's Telescope is the debut novel of Irish novelist and poet Gerard Donovan. Published in 2003, the book received general acclaim, appearing...

The Suffa RT-70 radio telescope (Russian: Суффа РТ-70) is an RT-70 radio telescope at the Suffa Radio Observatory on the Suffa plateau in Uzbekistan. Construction...

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Telescope is a Canadian documentary series which aired on CBC Television between 1963 and 1973. The series was hosted by Fletcher Markle, which profiled...

Orion Telescopes & Binoculars was an American retail company that sold telescopes, binoculars and accessories online and in-store for astronomy and birdwatching...

Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and the Simons Array were located nearby but these instruments have now been replaced by the current (3 small-aperture telescopes and...

A small telescope is generally considered by professional astronomers to be any reflecting telescope with a primary mirror that is less than 2 metres (80 in)...

The Galileo National Telescope, (Italian: Telescopio Nazionale Galileo; TNG; code: Z19) is a 3.58-meter Italian telescope, located at the Roque de los...

NPOI. The KSAR Telescope's 18-meter (60-foot) diameter steel dome is quite large for the telescope's aperture, owing to its telescope's long f/9.8 focal...

The Pachmarhi Telescope Array or Pachmarhi Array of Cerenkov Telescopes (PACT) is an array of 24 telescopes for gamma-ray astronomy. It is located at...

observations took place in 1981 via telescope - Zeiss-1000. In the beginning of the 1980s the process of building of 1.5-m telescope dome began. The dome was 45...

Ritchey-Chrétien telescope. The telescope is owned and operated by LCOGT. This telescope and its sister telescope Faulkes Telescope South are used by...

Synthesis Telescope (MOST) is a radio telescope operating at 843 MHz. It was operated by the School of Physics of the University of Sydney. The telescope is...

The Crossley telescope is a 36-inch (910 mm) reflecting telescope located at Lick Observatory in the U.S. state of California. It was used between 1895...

5 m telescopes comes from the consortium members, but funds for the 2.5 m telescope come from a much wider array of sources. The 1.0 m telescope is supported...

lists the significant events in the invention and development of the telescope. c.2560 BC–c.860 BC — Egyptian artisans polish rock crystal, semi-precious...

optical telescopes for observing celestial objects. This came to be known as Kavalur Observatory. Observations began in 1968 with a 38 cm telescope made...

The Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) is a radio telescope operated by the CSIRO at the Paul Wild Observatory, 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Narrabri...

contribute to the growth of this observatory. Utilizing a variety of telescopes, USO is known for its solar observations, which include high-resolution...

A robotic telescope is an astronomical telescope and detector system that makes observations without the intervention of a human. In astronomical disciplines...

The Dunn Solar Telescope, also known as the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope, was a unique vertical-axis solar telescope that specializes in high-resolution...

large telescopes, their shapes and terrain remaining a mystery. The best modern ground-based telescopes and the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope can...

Telescope Hill, at 334 feet (102 m), is the highest point of elevation in the Town of Brookhaven, on Long Island, New York, United States. The hill is...

Kepler-452 and is the only planet in the system discovered by the Kepler space telescope. It is located about 1,800 light-years (550 pc) from Earth in the constellation...

The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven...

The Samuel Oschin telescope (/ˈɔːʃɪn/), also called the Oschin Schmidt, is a 48-inch-aperture (1.22 m) Schmidt camera at the Palomar Observatory in northern...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) was a cosmological millimeter-wave telescope located on Cerro Toco in the Atacama Desert in the north of Chile. ACT...

telescope or Lurie–Houghton telescope is a catadioptric telescope. Houghton's original design uses a two-lens corrector at the front of the telescope...

during 1999–2000, where it since conducts the Bisei Asteroid Tracking Telescope for Rapid Survey or BATTeRS (バッターズ), an astronomical survey that solely...

The Large Zenith Telescope (LZT) was a 6.0-meter diameter liquid-mirror telescope located in the University of British Columbia's Malcolm Knapp Research...

Riverside Telescope Makers Conference at Riverside City College in Riverside, California. It consisted of a series of lectures about astronomy and telescope making...

The Space Solar Telescope (SST) is a planned Chinese optical space solar telescope. It was first proposed in the 1990s, and is intended to be a 1 metre...

The Half-Mile Telescope was constructed in 1968 (2 aerials) at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory with two more aerials being added in 1972, using...

or Rosse six-foot telescope, is a historic reflecting telescope of 72 inches (1.83 m) aperture, which was the largest telescope in the world from 1845...

about 2.5 km in the Mediterranean Sea, the ANTARES telescope (Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental Research) has been fully operational...

The achromatic telescope is a refracting telescope that uses an achromatic lens to correct for chromatic aberration. When an image passes through a lens...

1930 by Clyde Tombaugh. Lowell is home to a 24-inch Clark Refracting Telescope, built in 1896, which is still in use today for public observing. Lowell...

Kapteyn Telescope or JKT is a 1-metre optical telescope named for the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922) of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes at...

There are three radio telescopes designated RT-70, all in countries that were once part of the former Soviet Union, all with similar specifications: 70m...

Keck Telescopes as the second or third largest telescope in the world. However, its cost was about 20% that of other similarly sized telescopes in use...

The Canada–France–Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) is located near the summit of Mauna Kea mountain on Hawaii's Big Island at an altitude of 4,204 meters (13,793...

largest optical telescopes in the 19th century includes what were large optical telescopes for their time. See List of largest optical telescopes in the 20th...

Byrd Green Bank Telescope 140 Foot (43m) Telescope 20 Meter Telescope 40 Foot Telescope One of the CHIME outriggers 300 Foot Radio Telescope – the world's...

The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is a low-cost open-source array radio telescope consisting of 24 all-sky GNSS receivers operating at the L1-band...

The Telescope Array project is an international collaboration involving research and educational institutions in Japan, The United States, Russia, South...

Telescopio InfraRosso del Gornergrat (TIRGO), or the Gornergrat Infrared Telescope, was located on the northern tower of the Kulm Hotel at Gornergrat (3...

As Seen Through a Telescope (AKA: The Professor and His Field Glass) is a 1900 British short silent comedy film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring...

Submillimetre Telescope (SEST) is a 15-metre diameter radio telescope. It is located at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The telescope was built in 1987...

Snow Solar Telescope is a solar telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. It was originally named the Snow Horizontal Telescope as it uses...

The Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) was one of four instruments outfitted on NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. Since lower...

The Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) is 64-metre fully steerable radio telescope near San Basilio, Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. Completed in 2011...

Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML) is an XML dialect for controlling remote and/or robotic telescopes. It is used to describe various telescope parameters...

Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope is a modern 4.1-meter-aperture (13 ft) optical and near-infrared telescope located on Cerro Pachón, Chile, at...

Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The discovery images of Makemake were taken by this telescope on March 31,...

The Isaac Newton Telescope or INT is a 2.54 m (100 in) optical telescope run by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory...

The New Technology Telescope or NTT is a 3.58-metre Ritchey–Chrétien telescope operated by the European Southern Observatory. It began operations in 1989...

Schmidt–Newtonian telescope or Schmidt–Newton telescope is a catadioptric telescope that combines elements from both the Schmidt camera and the Newtonian telescope. In...

Middelburg. He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or the first truly compound microscope, but these claims (made 20...

The Apollo Telescope Mount, or ATM, was a crewed solar observatory that was a part of Skylab, the first American space station. It could observe the Sun...

measuring their angular distance from the nadir. These are special purpose telescopes mounted so as to allow pointing only in the meridian, the great circle...

The Siberian Solar Radio Telescope (SSRT) is a radio telescope located in the Russian republic of Buryatia designed for solar observation. It has been...

The James Lick Telescope is a refracting telescope built in 1888. It has a lens, which is 91 centimetres (36 in) in diameter—a major achievement in its...

RT-64 are two radio telescopes in Russia with 64-metre (210 ft) antenna diameter which are among the largest radio telescopes in the world. The Bear Lakes...

a 16" fully automated telescope with a 5" refractor and is ideal for research, astrophotography and public use. The telescopes are available for Discovery...

will pave the way for more cosmic ray experiments with digital radio telescopes, such as LOFAR. In the first phase until 2003, LOPES consisted of ten...

resident, Colonel Henry Heberden JP, had a 10.5-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope that he wanted to donate to a Society in order for it to be made available...

patenting in 1941 a catadioptric meniscus telescope design similar to but slightly predating the Maksutov telescope. Bouwers was born in the town of Dalen...

giant telescopes. His 72-inch telescope, built in 1845 and colloquially known as the "Leviathan of Parsonstown", was the world's largest telescope, in terms...

A three-mirror anastigmat is an anastigmat telescope built with three curved mirrors, enabling it to minimize all three main optical aberrations – spherical...

was approved for funding in late 2004, with the aim of having the full telescope operational by 2009. The project was jointly run by Cardiff University...

first telescope, a 21-inch reflector, began operating in early 1963. At this time the site was known as Catalina Observatory. The first telescope was at...

Burrell telescope, which was later moved to Kitt Peak National Observatory. Instead of Burrell the station was equipped with the 36-inch robotic telescope. In...

The Newall Telescope is a 62.5 centimetres (24.6 in) refractor in the Penteli Observatory in Penteli, Greece. It was built in 1869 by Thomas Cooke for...

Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology. Taosi Astronomical Observatory, Xiangfen County, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, China Shadow...

(22 July 1907 – 13 March 1975) by installing his Reinfelder & Hertel telescope in a newly created astronomical observatory. The observatory has the further...

Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) is a 3.8 metre (150 inch) infrared reflecting telescope, the second largest dedicated infrared (1 to 30 micrometres) telescope in...

Origins Space Telescope (Origins) is a concept study for a far-infrared survey space telescope mission. A preliminary concept in pre-formulation, it was...

the Very Large Telescope (VLTI). It either combines the light of the four Unit Telescopes (UT) or the smaller four Auxiliary Telescopes. The instrument...

The Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope, also known as the Mayall 4-meter Telescope, is a four-meter (158 inches) reflector telescope located at the Kitt Peak...

The Space Infrared Telescope for Cosmology and Astrophysics (SPICA), was a proposed infrared space telescope, which would have been a successor to the...

Eye to the Telescope is a quarterly online journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, which publishes speculative poetry, including...

Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, a renamed JDEM-Omega proposal which has superseded SNAP, Destiny, and Advanced Dark Energy Physics Telescope (ADEPT)...

The Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope (BDUNT) (Russian: Байкальский подводный нейтринный телескоп) is a neutrino detector conducting research...

he started the Virtual Telescope project (part of Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory), consisting of several robotic telescopes, remotely available in...

Harlan J. Smith Telescope is a 107-inch (2.7 m) telescope located at the McDonald Observatory, in Texas, in the United States. This telescope is one of several...

disk around the event horizon of Sagittarius A*, using the Event Horizon Telescope, a world-wide network of radio observatories. This is the second confirmed...

Teleskop Alt-azimutalnyi, lit. 'Large Altazimuth Telescope') is a 6-metre (20 ft) aperture optical telescope at the Special Astrophysical Observatory located...

an acronym for Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes, is being[when?] built by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...

the practice and study of observing celestial objects with the use of telescopes and other astronomical instruments. As a science, the study of astronomy...

is an instrument mounted on the Very Large Telescope (VLT), combining the light of the three Unit Telescopes in the near-infrared of the VLT-Interferometer...

irregularity of the lunar limb was observed by Galileo Galilei using a telescope, and the discovery was mentioned in his 1610 treatise titled Sidereus...

The Shuckburgh telescope or Shuckburgh equatorial refracting telescope was a 4.1 inches (10.4 cm) diameter aperture telescope on an equatorial mount completed...

observatories such as transportable telescopes or instrument packages. For large observatories with numerous telescopes at a single location, only a single...

400 Years of the Telescope: A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought is a 2009 American documentary film that was created to coincide with the International...

The NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (NASA IRTF) is a 3.2-meter (10 ft) telescope optimized for use in infrared astronomy and located at the Mauna Kea...

housing the historic Newall Refractor, which was the largest refracting telescope in the world when it was built in 1869. From 1959 to 1980 it was a major...

The ESO 3.6 m Telescope is an optical reflecting telescope run by the European Southern Observatory at La Silla Observatory, Chile since 1977, with a clear...

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), science operations and mission operations...

The Pink Clubhouse was built in 1923 at the site by the Springfield Telescope Makers. The name Stellafane, suggested by Porter at the club's December...

The Adjustable Ranging Telescope (ART) is a weapons sighting system typically used as a military rifle scope which was initially designed for service...

organizations. The first two telescopes, the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope began operation in 1993....

Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC) is a 10.4 m (410 in) reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La...

Chopping is a technique used with infrared telescopes to minimize interference from external or internal heat. The chopper is the mechanism that rocks...

signals from two or more telescopes to obtain measurements with higher resolution than could be obtained with either telescopes individually. This technique...

active galaxy. airborne observatory An airplane with an astronomical telescope, which relies upon altitude to reduce atmospheric absorption and improve...

Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of robotic optical telescopes optimized for the discovery of optical counterparts to gravitational wave...

Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with limited...

Telescoped ammunition is an ammunition design in which the projectile is partially or completely enveloped by the propellant. Examples include ammunition...

The graphic telescope is a type of camera lucida that has the power of a telescope. It was invented by Cornelius Varley in 1809. It can be used to draw...

on May 16, 2025 by the NIRcam instrument aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). That image captured the galaxy during its formation about 280...

This list contains proposals for space telescopes, space-based (situated in space) astronomical observatories. It is a list of past and present space observatory...

as searchlights, headlamps, early lighthouse focusing systems, optical telescopes, microscopes, and telephoto lenses. Other optical systems that use lenses...

Horwood. The main instrument is the 72-inch-aperture (1.83 m) Plaskett telescope, proposed and designed by John S. Plaskett in 1910 with the support of...

astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. He was also known for his efforts to promote...

Earth's axis of rotation. This type of mount is used for astronomical telescopes and cameras. The advantage of an equatorial mount lies in its ability...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) protests were a series of protests and demonstrations that began on the Island of Hawaii over the choosing of Mauna Kea...

in Earth orbit from 1991 to 2000. The observatory featured four main telescopes in one spacecraft, covering X-rays and gamma rays, including various specialized...

"Aristarchos" telescope, an optical telescope designed and manufactured by the German company Carl Zeiss AG. The size of the telescope mirror, the largest...

The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) was a space telescope designed to make spectroscopic observations in the far-ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic...

eight 6-metre diameter radio telescopes. The largest existing submillimetre telescope, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, is also located on Mauna Kea...

William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, employing a 72-inch (1.8 m) reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, Ireland, found that the Whirlpool possessed a spiral structure...

Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a global system of radio telescopes capable of directly observing a black hole shadow. The angular resolution of a telescope is...

The High Elevation Antarctic Terahertz telescope is a far-infrared telescope, established by the University of Arizona and the University of New South...

List of largest optical telescopes in Ireland and the United Kingdom is a list of the largest optical telescopes in the British Isles, including in the...

Otter, the gondola itself had not been recovered by August 2001. The telescope was called part of the "Submillimeter Astrophysics Experiment" for Dr...

1987. CASLEO's telescopes are located in two separate areas within the El Leoncito Park. The Jorge Sahade and Submillimeter telescopes are at the main...

exoplanet-finding telescopes, three SONG telescopes for asteroseismology and stellar astrophysics, two 'Shared Skies' telescopes, and a USQ-Louisville telescope. It...

The AAO operated the 3.9-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) and 1.2-metre UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) at Siding Spring Observatory, located near...

amateurs. In 2001, undocumented and dual-use of 44.0.0.0/8 as a network telescope began, recording the spread of the Code Red II worm in July 2001. In mid-2019...

The IRAM 30m telescope is a radio telescope, located in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, Spain. It is operated by the Institute for Radio Astronomy in...

6 meter telescope in La Silla Observatory, Chile, the HIRES spectrometer at the Keck telescopes or EXPRES at the Lowell Discovery Telescope. An especially...

Open Telescope (DOT) is an optical solar telescope located on Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma (near the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope). With...

An infinite-axis telescope is a telescope that can move freely in all directions. Such telescopes can be mechanically simple hand-guided versions with...

and operated by the WIYN Consortium. Its 3.5-meter telescope is the second largest optical telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. Most...

Bloemfontein Centre, the amateur astronomy club of the city, for presenters and telescope assistants. The Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory was founded in 1889...

hardware components, software systems, and support equipment involved in telescope construction and operation, including mounts, optics such as mirrors and...

director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, the operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. Her research also...

The Carnegie telescope (i.e. Carnegie double astrograph) is a twin 20-inch (510 mm) refractor telescope located at Lick Observatory in California, United...

Flyeye, or the Near Earth Object Survey TELescope (NEOSTEL), is an astronomical survey and early-warning system for detecting near-Earth objects sized...

The Mauna Kea Observatories have been controversial since the first telescope was built in the late 1960s. Originally part of research begun by Gerard...

rather than a more fundamental change. A study using the Hubble Space Telescope suggests that occluding dust was created by a surface mass ejection; this...

Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as the Guo Shoujing Telescope (Chinese: 郭守敬望远镜) after the 13th-century Chinese...

the 1930s, Horn d'Arturo created the tessellated telescope, a progenitor of segmented mirror telescopes. In 1932 Horn d'Arturo began to work on a new idea...

observed in 1995 with the WFPC2 camera on the Hubble Space Telescope. Other space telescopes that have obtained deep-field observations include the Chandra...

The Anna L. Nickel telescope is a 1-meter reflecting telescope located at Lick Observatory in the U.S. state of California. The smaller dome on the main...

substantial bequest from Edith Winstone Blackwell for the purchase of a telescope for public use. The Society formed the Auckland Observatory and Planetarium...

Swope telescope. du Pont telescope Warsaw telescope dome and control building Warsaw telescope Clay telescope (one of the Magellan telescopes) Magellan...

The Pfund telescope, originated by A.H. Pfund, provides an alternative method for achieving a fixed telescope focal point in space regardless of where...

primary concave mirror and a secondary convex mirror, often used in optical telescopes and radio antennas, the main characteristic being that the optical path...

The National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) is a Gregorian multi-purpose open telescope, in Merak village (altitude ~ 4,200 m) on the southern shore of Pangong...

aperture telescope, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). SOFIA completed its first test flight on April 26, 2007 and its telescope saw...

divergence. Since the magnification provided by a telescope and eyepiece is equal to the telescope's focal length divided by the eyepiece's focal length...

objects range from −26.832 (the Sun) to objects in deep Hubble Space Telescope images of magnitude +31.5. The measurement of apparent magnitude is called...

eleven patches. Each telescope is actually two telescopes giving stereoscopic vision. There is a zoom mechanism built into each telescope as well. While in...

are a group of independent astronomical research facilities and large telescope observatories that are located at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaiʻi,...

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) is a spectrograph, also with a camera mode, installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. Aerospace engineer...

formed very early in cosmological time as observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). PBHs have long been considered possibly important if not nearly...

The MPG/ESO telescope is a 2.2-metre f/8.0 (17.6-metre) ground-based telescope at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in La Silla, Chile. It was built...

near the peak. There is an observatory at the top of Doddabetta with two telescopes available for the public. It was opened on 18 June 1983 and is run by...

The TOLIMAN (Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighbourhood) space telescope is a low-cost mission concept aimed...

The ARO 12m Radio Telescope (ARO12m or KP12m) is a 12-meter dish located on Kitt Peak, approximately 60 mi (97 km) from Tucson in Arizona at an elevation...

campus on Mars Hill in Flagstaff, Arizona. The 1.83 m (72 in) Perkins Telescope is shared with Boston University (BU) and Georgia State University. Built...

RT-32 is a radio telescope. RT-32, at the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre, near Ventspils, Latvia RT-32, at the Badary Radio Astronomical...

the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope in December 2011 and was the first known transiting planet to orbit within...

A tower viewer is a telescope or pair of binoculars permanently mounted on a stalk. The device magnifies objects through its lenses, allowing users to...

large radio antennas referred to as radio telescopes, that are either used alone, or with multiple linked telescopes utilizing the techniques of radio interferometry...

Measurements by other astronomers using 21 centimeter hydrogen line radio telescopes clinched the case. Honored during her lifetime for her work, she received...

ground-based telescopes (like the Keck Telescope and the Very Large Telescope), and is a high contrast imaging mode on the James Webb Space Telescope. This technique...

Principal Triangulation of Great Britain A boning telescope was a small, low-magnification telescope used to align the survey markers. Gill, B. (2001);...

Telescope Eyes E.P. is an EP of the band Eisley released January 25, 2005 on Reprise Records. All songs written by Eisley. "Eisley". The Houston Chronicle...

first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations of the imperfect...

study Herbig–Haro objects in detail. The telescope has not been upgraded with a digital sensor. A solar telescope was donated by Erro some time before 1957...

telescope mounted so it can rotate around horizontal and vertical axes and provide angular readouts. These indicate the orientation of the telescope,...

Phoebe Waterman Haas Public Observatory with a 16–inch telescope is a U.S. public observatory located at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington...

observing work at Mount Wilson Observatory, home to the world's most powerful telescope at the time. His observations of Cepheid variable stars in "spiral nebulae"...

University using the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as two Earth-bound telescopes in Chile. Comparison between the Sun...

Andromeda. The Blue Snowball Nebula, a planetary nebula, is visible in a telescope as a blue circular object. In Chinese astronomy, the stars that make up...

any spacecraft except space telescopes Telescope – ground-based and space telescopes; organizations that operate telescopes (for example, the National...

variety of astronomical observation via telescopes that are sensitive in the range of visible light (optical telescopes). Visible-light astronomy or optical...

popularizer of amateur telescope making. He conducted the popular "Gleanings for ATMs" (Amateur Telescope Makers) column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21...

NASA center is the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), responsible for the science mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, the science and operations...

established. Infrared and optical astronomy are often practiced using the same telescopes, as the same mirrors or lenses are usually effective over a wavelength...

Hubble or hubble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope in low Earth orbit. Hubble may also refer to: Hubble sequence,...

1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Canadian Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakalā Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, approximately 40...

twin refractor telescope Telescope enclosures at the observatory One of two Celestron C14 reflector telescopes at ULO Fry refractor telescope, the observatory's...

There are six optical telescopes on the summit of the Sierra San Pedro Mártir at the OAN complex: The 2.12 m (83 in) telescope was built between 1974...

The Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) was a wide-field CCD imaging telescope, operated by the University of New South Wales at Siding Spring Observatory...

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a Chinese telescope characterized by a 2.5-metre primary mirror, dedicated to time-domain surveys, tracking...

(Rhön), a wetland habitat in Germany Black Telescope goldfish, known as black moor, a variant of telescope eye goldfish "Harap Alb", a 1877 Romanian-language...

Language Academy in San Bernardino. The Goldstone-Apple Valley Radio Telescope (GAVRT) Program is a partnership between NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

the Illinois telescope because it was located at UIUC's Prairie Observatory until 1981. The 0.6 m (24 in) Clifford Smith 24-inch telescope is a Cassegrain...

The Viper telescope was a 2-metre telescope used to observe the submillimetre band from the South Pole. This telescope was located at the Center for Astrophysical...

Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) also known as Insight (Chinese: 慧眼) is a Chinese X-ray space observatory, launched on June 15, 2017 to observe...

Obsession Telescopes is an American optical telescope company that specializes in the production of Dobsonian telescopes. The company was founded in 1989...

Almanac article was misinterpreted by James Hugh Pruett in a 1946 Sky and Telescope article, leading to the calendrical definition of "blue moon" that is...

Bautista, California. Fremont Peak Observatory houses the Challenger telescope. The observatory is named after the mountain it resides on, Fremont Peak...

The One-Mile Telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO), Cambridge, UK is an array of radio telescopes (two fixed and one moveable, fully...

Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory, or AST/RO, was a 1.7 meter diameter off-axis telescope for research in astronomy and aeronomy...

The Rapid Eye Mount telescope (REM) is a fully automatic, 60 cm aperture telescope located at ESO's La Silla Observatory at 2,400 metres altitude on the...

withdrawn. The MRO 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) telescope is a Nasmyth design on an azimuth-elevation (az-el) mount. The telescope is capable of slew rates of 10 degrees...

The Whole Earth Telescope is an international network of astronomers that collaborate to study variable stars. The distribution of the observatories in...

first underwater telescope. Sarah Mather (fl. 1840s–1860s) was an American inventor best known for developing an early submarine telescope, a device that...

industry forum in Bordeaux, France. In December 2024, Telescope Games, a subsidiary of Telescope Animation, released Lani's Call, a short narrative game...

Large Altazimuth Telescope), with first light in 1975, was for years the world's largest single primary mirror optical reflecting telescope. The BTA-6's primary...

announced that the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope would be named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in recognition of her enduring contributions...

more than one planet. Most of these were discovered by the Kepler space telescope. There are an additional 1,978 potential exoplanets from Kepler's first...

KAT-7 is a radio telescope situated in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Developed as the precursor engineering test bed...

In mathematics, a telescoping series is a series whose general term t n {\displaystyle t_{n}} is of the form t n = a n + 1 − a n {\displaystyle t_{n}=a_{n+1}-a_{n}}...

Webb Space Telescope, a powerful infrared space observatory, is located at L2. This allows the satellite's sunshield to protect the telescope from the light...

key telescope properties were: 1.45 × 0.5 m primary mirror for each telescope 1.0 × 0.5 m focal plane array on which light from both telescopes was projected...

The Bernard Lyot Telescope (Téléscope Bernard Lyot, or TBL) is a 2-meter Cassegrain telescope operating in the visible domain since 1980. It is located...

in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct atmospheric distortion of light, a phenomenon termed...

Graham Clark (July 10, 1832 – June 9, 1897) was an American astronomer and telescope-maker. Alvan Graham Clark was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, the son...

The Xinjiang Qitai 120m Radio Telescope (QTT) is a planned radio telescope to be built in Qitai County in Xinjiang, China. Upon completion, which is scheduled...

The UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST) is a 1.24 metre Schmidt telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory (formerly the Anglo-Australian Observatory);...

Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900, with an objective lens of 1.25 m (49 in) in diameter, was the largest refracting telescope ever constructed. It...

astronomical observations with telescopes that would otherwise be limited through diffraction by the size of the telescope aperture. Today, many large scientific...

sharing a common mount. The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is a pair of telescopes plus a computing facility that surveys...

The M49 spotting scope, also known as the M49 observation telescope, is a multipurpose scope system used primarily for long range marksmanship observation...

Mira variable stars. The 17 in (0.43 m) Dean Glace Telescope is a corrected Dall-Kirkham telescope made by Planewave and set on a Mathis equatorial fork...

kilometer-sized outer irregular moons that were only briefly captured by telescopes. All together, Jupiter's moons form a satellite system, colloquially referred...

Telescope Lake is a lake in the Unorganized Part of Kenora District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. It is in the Hudson Bay drainage basin, and is within...

Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic...

created the scale and published it in the February 2001 edition of Sky & Telescope magazine to help skywatchers evaluate and compare the darkness of night-sky...

Vixen is a Japanese company that makes telescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes and accessories for their products. Among many other more mainstream products...

time on two 2-metre class telescopes located in Hawaii (Faulkes Telescope North in Hawaii) and Australia (Faulkes Telescope South in Australia). This...

the Ooty Radio Telescope. In the early 80's an ambitious plan for a new telescope was proposed - the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. Since the site...

The Bradford Robotic Telescope (BRT) is an autonomous astronomical telescope located at Teide Observatory, Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is owned...

The Faulkes Telescope South is a clone of the Liverpool Telescope and is located at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia. It is a 2 m...

small and light, indicative of a spiral galaxy; but the Spitzer Space Telescope found that the halo was significantly larger and more massive than previously...

to develop and manufacture case telescoped weapons and ammunition. The company name is an acronym for Case Telescoped Ammunition. Its main product is...

The Cambridge Low-Frequency Synthesis Telescope (CLFST) is an east-west aperture synthesis radio telescope currently operating at 151 MHz. It consists...

He was also the first person to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope, on 5 August 1609, about four months before Galileo Galilei. After graduating...

telescope (Polarized Light from Atmospheres of Nearby ExtraTerrestrial Systems) is a precursor and technology demonstrator for the Colossus Telescope...

Array telescope. Further evidence was subsequently uncovered in 2021 through observations conducted by the Chandra and NuSTAR X-ray telescopes. SN 1987A...

Aristarchos 2.3 m Telescope is a Ritchey-Chrétien telescope at the Chelmos Observatory on Mount Chelmos, Greece. It is the largest telescope in the country...

Underground Scintillation Telescope (BUST), located 300 m (980 ft) below the surface, the gallium–germanium neutrino telescope (Soviet–American Gallium...

(Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) is a planned space telescope and the fourth medium-class mission of the European Space Agency's Cosmic...

The Algonquin 46m radio telescope (ARO) is a radio telescope at the Algonquin Radio Observatory, Canada. This radio telescope is historically famous for...

radio astronomy observatories are collectively known as the Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF), with the facility supporting Australia's research...

The bright members of the chain are visible through small telescopes. Larger telescopes can be used to view the fainter galaxies . Near the center there...

assisted in the controversy over trying to figure out who invented the telescope. He had a local magistrate in Middelburg in the Netherlands follow up...

Through a Telescope is a 1913 silent film comedy short produced by the Eclair American Motion Picture Company and distributed through Universal Film Manufacturing...

eastward near the predicted location of Apollo 8. He used a 60 cm refractor telescope to observe a cluster of objects which were obscured by the appearance...

look bigger by allowing the user to hold them closer to their eye. A telescope, which uses its large objective lens or primary mirror to create an image...

mirror instead of a lens as a telescope objective, which may be the earliest known description of a reflecting telescope. In his book, he also demonstrated...

The observatory's main telescope was a 1.6 m (63 in) reflecting telescope. The primary instrument attached to the telescope was a fiber-fed, cross-dispersed...

surface of rivers, lakes and seas. A more advanced version, an underwater telescope was patented by Sarah Mather in 1845 - U.S. Patent No. 3,995; it permitted...

Telescope, Sunspot Telescope, TAMA 300 gravitational wave detector Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Historical instruments: Solar Tower Telescope,...

it consists of the following missions: ground-based Keck telescopes* Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer* Keck Interferometer* airborne Stratospheric...

order to compensate for light distortion. It is used in astronomical telescopes and laser communication systems to remove the effects of atmospheric distortion...

Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an interferometer array of radio telescopes spread across England. The array is run from Jodrell Bank Observatory...

The Goode Solar Telescope (GST) is a scientific facility for studies of the Sun named after Philip R. Goode. It was the solar telescope with the world's...

high-end American telescope and optics instrument manufacturer. OMI was founded in 2002 and produces observatory telescopes, Lidar telescopes, optical tube...

located on the Moon's far side. Wright, Chris. "NASA Might Put a Huge Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-09-01...

observatories like the VERITAS array and space-based telescopes like the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (launched in 2008) contribute significantly to gamma-ray...

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a pan-European project to build a next-generation 4-metre class solar telescope, to be located at the Roque de los...

The problems involved have largely been resolved, with all but the "telescope conjecture" being proved in later papers by others. Ravenel's conjectures...

Spa and Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa, and funding of the Craig telescope. Craig was born in 1805 in Blackrock, Dublin, where his father Robert...

Resolution Fly's Eye Cosmic Ray Detector, the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array Project that appeared to show cosmic rays with energies above the...

reflecting telescopes – List of large optical telescopes List of largest optical refracting telescopes List of space telescopes List of solar telescopes List...

spending approximately $700,000 to repair the buildings, bring in the telescope, build a clean room, and install lasers, advanced optics, computers and...

only be obtained in the period from May to September 1992. A 25 cm Meade telescope was used, with a photometer to measure extinction and with a photographic...

The Carlsberg Meridian Telescope (formerly the Carlsberg Automatic Meridian Circle) is a decommissioned meridian circle telescope located at the Roque de...

the Hubble Space Telescope. Throughout her career, she has overseen numerous space missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wilkinson Microwave...

The Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope, or KM3NeT, is a European research infrastructure located on the bed of the Mediterranean Sea at depths of over...

the McClean telescope, discovered the presence of oxygen in a number of stars using an objective prism attached to the Astrographic Telescope. In 1911,...

extragalactic, but the first Milky Way FRB was detected by the CHIME radio telescope in April 2020. In June 2021, astronomers reported over 500 FRBs from outer...

The Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN) is a network of solar observatories maintained and operated by the 557th Weather Wing, ACC. The RSTN consists...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) is a 9.2-metre optical telescope designed mainly for spectroscopy. It consists of 91 hexagonal mirror segments...

The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope (CAT) was a three-element interferometer for cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB/R) observations at 13 to 17 GHz...

MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South...

communications, and spacecraft communication antennas. They are also used in radio telescopes. The other large use of parabolic antennas is for radar antennas, which...

also carry telescopes for observing the Sun in ultraviolet. The Hubble Space Telescope and FUSE have been the most recent major space telescopes to view...

Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope is a Department of Defense telescope at Haleakala Observatory. The telescope is part of the Maui Space Surveillance...

Operation Telescope was a Franco-British operation conducted from 5 to 6 November 1956 during the Suez Crisis, consisting of a series of parachute drops...

The telescope hornsnail, scientific name Pleurocera walkeri, is a species of freshwater snail in the family Pleuroceridae. This species is endemic to...

bioptic in the singular, and sometimes more formally termed a bioptic telescope, is a term for a pair of vision-enhancement lenses. They magnify between...

radio time signals, constructing some of the earliest and most accurate telescopes of their kind, and helping develop universal time. The Naval Observatory...

New York, shipped in pieces, and assembled on site. The brass refractor telescope, finders, German equatorial mount, and pier were purchased from Perkin...

Sundial: time-telling device Transit instrument: small telescope used for precise astrometry Telescope: instrument that makes distant objects appear magnified...

Spectroscopic Telescope Array, also named Explorer 93 and SMEX-11) is a NASA space-based X-ray telescope that uses a conical approximation to a Wolter telescope to...

Münstereifel. The hill is partly forested, but on the summit around the radio telescope, it is treeless. Its upper northern and western slopes are used for agriculture...