Sentences with phrase «centimetre telescope»
Three small domes covered the roof and a 15 - centimetre telescope was immediately installed in one of the domes.
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It consisted of an image of the Moon captured using a 20 - centimetre telescope.
The observatory responded in 1971 by erecting a 60 - centimetre telescope at Las Campanas in Chile.
The 15 - centimetre telescope is mounted on the Chang» e 3 lander, which touched down on the lunar surface in December 2013.
Two new 50 - and 60 - centimetre telescopes arrived later to occupy the other two domes.
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The 50 centimetre wide telescope will look outward towards the Earth and beyond, so that dangerous asteroids will always be fully lit.
The Hubble telescope, with an optical system considered comparable to those of the finest US spy satellites, would pick out objects only 10 to 20 centimetres across if it was aimed at Earth.
The radio telescopes operated continuously at a wavelength of 10.7 centimetres, which is an ideal wavelength for monitoring solar activity due to the Sun's particular chemical composition.
This detail is about the same as we achieve here at Jodrell Bank with our e-MERLIN array of telescopes working at centimetre wavelengths but with telescopes spread up to about 200 km apart.
The goal was to refine the measurements from other radio telescopes by scanning the Sun's surface every noon at a wavelength of 10.7 centimetres.
The observatory was equipped with 38 - centimetre astronomical telescope and King became its first director.
In 1981, the observatory received a third telescope measuring 40 centimetres across.