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Ronan, Colin A. (1991). "Leonard and Thomas Digges". Journal of the British Astronomical Association. 101 (6) . Retrieved 25 January 2012. To say that my first night with a telescope was a disappointment would be to indulge in an understatement so vast that it couldn’t possibly exist in a finite universe. Dad and I got the scope assembled okay, but once outdoors, we couldn’t see a thing. Matters weren’t helped by dad’s instance that we try using it without eyepieces first — to avoid unnecessarily complicating things. Of course, all we saw when we looked in the focuser was the silhouette of the secondary mirror, or as dad called it in tones of increasing frustration, “that damn bull’s-eye thing.” Dad didn’t know much about telescopes. I knew even less. Reflecting telescopes Historical Introduction – The Early Period (1608–1672) [ permanent dead link] William Gascoigne was the first who commanded a chief advantage of the form of telescope suggested by Kepler: that a small material object could be placed at the common focal plane of the objective and the eyepiece. This led to his invention of the micrometer, and his application of telescopic sights to precision astronomical instruments. It was not until about the middle of the 17th century that Kepler's telescope came into general use: not so much because of the advantages pointed out by Gascoigne, but because its field of view was much larger than in the Galilean telescope. [15] Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna - TELESCOPES " The request however was turned down, also because other spectacle-makers had made similar claims at the same time."

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As a practical man, Dollond at once put his doubts to the test of experiment: he confirmed the conclusions of Klingenstierna, discovered a difference far beyond his hopes in the refractive qualities of different kinds of glass with respect to the divergence of colors, and was thus rapidly led to the construction of lenses in which first the chromatic aberration—and afterwards—the spherical aberration were corrected. [64] [69] See also: Radio telescope and Radio astronomy The 250-foot (76m) Lovell radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Van Helden, Albert; Dupré, Sven; van Gent, Rob & Zuidervaart, Huib, eds. (2010), The Origins of the Telescope, Amsterdam: KNAW Press [= History of Science and Scholarship in the Netherlands, vol. 12] pdf linkThe quality of the optics in the telescope, determined predominantly by their cost, will have a significant bearing on the quality of the views, and the cheap refractors that tend to be popular at electrical goods and camera shops are often disappointing. https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p7222_GSO-Dobsonian-Telescope-150C---6-inch-aperture-with-fine-Crayford-focuser.html

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Because radio telescopes have low resolution, they were the first instruments to use interferometry allowing two or more widely separated instruments to simultaneously observe the same source. Very long baseline interferometry extended the technique over thousands of kilometers and allowed resolutions down to a few milli-arcseconds.Important developments in reflecting telescopes were John Hadley's production of larger paraboloidal mirrors in 1721; the process of silvering glass mirrors introduced by Léon Foucault in 1857; [4] and the adoption of long-lasting aluminized coatings on reflector mirrors in 1932. [5] The Ritchey-Chretien variant of Cassegrain reflector was invented around 1910, but not widely adopted until after 1950; many modern telescopes including the Hubble Space Telescope use this design, which gives a wider field of view than a classic Cassegrain.