Sentences with phrase «reflecting telescope»

Even taking that into consideration, a liquid mirror telescope poses far fewer logistical problems than a conventional reflecting telescope made of glass.

By the middle of the 20th century, reflecting telescopes ran up against the same problem.

But NASA is also considering a more intriguing solution — a special type of reflecting telescope that uses a liquid, not glass, as the primary mirror.

The Gran Telescopio Canarias, or the «Great Canary Telescope,» is a 10.4 - meter reflecting telescope that began gathering observations in 2007.

Subaru is an Ritchey - Chretien reflecting telescope operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).

Ireland's «Leviathan of Parsonstown,» a 40 - ton reflecting telescope built by the Earl of Rosse in 1845, was the world's largest for seven decades.

After the talk, we offer a tour over the AIP campus and — if the sight is clear — an observation with one of our historical reflecting telescopes.

The large reflecting telescopes — Antu, Kueyen, Melipal and Yepun — have 8.2 m diameter main mirrors.

In principle, an LMT is no different from a normal reflecting telescope.

Supplementing the space telescopes, researchers also observed the star in visible light during the same period using AstroLAB IRIS, a public observatory with a 27 - inch - wide (68 centimeter) reflecting telescope located near the Belgian village of Zillebeke.

In 1663, the Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory published his book Optima Promota in which he included the design for a new type of compact reflecting telescope.

HST is a 2.4 - meter reflecting telescope, which was deployed in low - Earth orbit (600 kilometers) by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery (STS - 31) on 25 April 1990.

Subaru is an Ritchey - Chretien reflecting telescope...

It would take too long to list his other scientific achievements, but the greatest hits might include his groundbreaking work on light and color; his development and refinement of reflecting telescopes (which now bear his name); and other fundamental work in math and heat.

Maybe you should have added a reflection / projection of the guy inside a transparent God, looking back out at himself through a reflected telescope!

Isaac Newton (helped develop science of dynamics and the discipline of calculus / father of the Law of Gravity / invented the reflecting telescope)

Celebrated for his pendulum experiment in 1851, Foucault also produced decisive evidence against the particle theory of light, invented the gyroscope, perfected the reflecting telescope and measured the sun's distance

The visual systems of scallops boast a sophisticated arrangement of up to 200 eyes, each of which is strikingly similar to a reflecting telescope or a large radio telescope, say researchers studying the features.

These were consistent with patches of ice, because ice provides a smooth surface that reflects the telescopes» radar signals well.

A reflecting telescope uses mirrors to view distant objects.

In order for light rays to be concentrated at the focal point of a reflecting telescope, the size of the irregularities in the curve of the parabolic collector must be smaller than the wavelength of the light being collected.

For the infrared domain, the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope remains the ideal means by which to collect and concentrate the light rays.

In 1672, the Catholic priest and French teacher Laurent Cassegrain invented a new type of reflecting telescope that he described in an unpublished manuscript.

One of the complications for detecting infrared sources in space is that the reflecting telescope collects a lot of background infrared light from the atmosphere, from any human observers present in the room, and from the telescope itself.

Refracting and reflecting telescopes are used to collect and study visible light.