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List Of Telescopes Of Australia
The list below is split between telescopes located in Australia, and telescopes sponsored by Australia such as a space telescope or foreign installation. Australia can access the Southern skies, which was a popular trend in the 20th century (many telescope had been built for the northern hemisphere). The third largest optical telescope in the world in 1974 was Anglo-Australian Telescope, one of the really large telescopes of that time and built in Australia. There are several radio telescopes also, and Sydney Observatory has taken observations for over a century. One of the largest telescopes of the 19th century was the Great Melbourne Telescope, one of the last big metal mirror reflecting telescopes before the silver-on-glass designs came to predominate; this was purchased with money from an Australian Gold boom. In country optical telescopes *Anglo-Australian Telescope (3.9m, 1974-) * Automated Patrol Telescope (.5m, 1989-2008) *Faulkes Telescope South (2m, 2004-) * SkyMappe ...
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Siding Spring From Belougery Split Rock
Siding may refer to: * Siding (construction), the outer covering or cladding of a house * Siding (rail) A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur. It may connect to through track or to other sidings at either end. Sidings often have lighte ..., a track section See also * {{disambiguation fr:Parement nl:Parement ...
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Penrith Observatory
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List Of Largest Optical Telescopes In The North America
This is a list of the largest optical telescopes in North America. 21st century A list of optical telescopes located in North America by aperture. Refractors Some of the big traditional refractors (telescope with lens) in North America: Biggest telescopes in 1950 ''Optical telescopes only'' Biggest telescopes in 1900 Biggest telescopes in 1850 Some of the largest at observatories: See also *Lists of telescopes *List of radio telescopes *List of largest optical reflecting telescopes (mirrors) *List of largest optical refracting telescopes (lenses) References External linksUS Telescopes (1989) {{DEFAULTSORT:Largest optical telescopes in the United States Lists of telescopes Telescopes Optical telescopes An optical telescope is a telescope that gathers and focuses light mainly from the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, to create a magnified image for direct visual inspection, to make a photograph, or to collect data through electr ...
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List Of Largest Optical Telescopes In The British Isles
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 United Kingdom and Ireland. Some of the most famous telescopes would be Herschel's reflector, which he discovered ''Georgium Sidus'', the Leviathan of Parsontown which at 1.8 meters (72 inches) was for decades the largest aperture telescope in the World, and in the 20th century many older telescopes are popular tourist attractions such as at Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. There is also number of modest instruments at universities used for various astronomical projects or education. The biggest optical telescope was the Isaac Newton Telescope at Herstmonceux, with a 98 inch mirror (~249 cm); it was there from 1965 to 1980; a lot of astronomy moved to off-site telescopes in space or distant mountains, with data transmitted electronically. The void left for public outreach is filled in part by planetariums and va ...
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Lists Of Telescopes
This is a list of lists of telescopes. *List of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths *List of astronomical observatories *List of highest astronomical observatories *List of large optical telescopes *List of largest infrared telescopes *List of largest optical telescopes historically *List of largest optical telescopes in the 18th century *List of largest optical telescopes in the 19th century *List of largest optical telescopes in the 20th century *List of largest optical reflecting telescopes *List of largest optical refracting telescopes *List of optical telescopes *List of proposed space observatories *List of radio telescopes *List of solar telescopes *List of space telescopes *List of telescopes of Australia *List of largest optical telescopes in the British Isles *List of telescope parts and construction *List of telescope types *List of the largest optical telescopes in North America *List of X-ray space telescopes See also * Lists of astronaut ...
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List Of Radio Telescopes
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 arrays. The list is sorted by region, then by name; unnamed telescopes are in reverse size order at the end of the list. The first radio telescope was invented in 1932, when Karl Jansky at Bell Telephone Laboratories observed radiation coming from the Milky Way. Africa Antarctica Asia Australia Europe North America South America Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean Space-based Under construction or planned construction Proposed telescopes Gallery of big dishes File:FastTelescope*8sep2015.jpg, alt=Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope under construction, The 500 meter Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), under construction, China (2016) File:GBT.png, alt=Green Bank Telescope, The 100 meter Green Bank Telescope, ...
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Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope
The Uppsala Schmidt Telescope is a Schmidt telescope located in Australia. It was moved to Siding Spring Observatory from Mount Stromlo Observatory in 1982. The instrument has been used to study the galaxy, asteroids and comets. It was last dedicated to the Siding Spring Survey. The telescope had a field of view of just over 6° through the use of a correcting plate, making its field three times as large as that of the Anglo-Australian Telescope. It used a spherical rather than a parabolic mirror with 0.6 m correcting plate to achieve this. Photographic plates and film were used as detectors. History The Uppsala Schmidt Telescope was built in 1956 in Sweden. The telescope was originally located at the Mount Stromlo Observatory. It was operational there between 1957 and 1982. It took the first images ever recorded of the Sputnik satellite in 1957. The telescope was modernised in 2000 and 2001 to include the experimental use of Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) which are ...
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Sydney Observatory
The Sydney Observatory is a heritage-listed meteorological station, astronomical observatory, function venue, science museum, and education facility located on Observatory Hill at Upper Fort Street, in the inner city Sydney suburb of Millers Point in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by William Weaver (plans) and Alexander Dawson (supervision) and built from 1857 to 1859 by Charles Bingemann & Ebenezer Dewar. It is also known as The Sydney Observatory; Observatory; Fort Phillip; Windmill Hill; and Flagstaff Hill. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 22 December 2000. The site was formerly a defence fort, semaphore station, time ball station, meteorological station, observatory and windmills. The site evolved from a fort built on 'Windmill Hill' in the early 19th century to an observatory during the nineteenth century. It is now a working museum where evening visitors can observe the stars and pla ...
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SkyMapper
SkyMapper is a fully automated 1.35 m (4.4 ft) wide-angle optical telescope at Siding Spring Observatory in northern New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the telescopes of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University (ANU). The telescope has a compact modified Cassegrain design with a large 0.69 m secondary mirror, which gives it a very wide field of view: its single, dedicated instrument, a 268-million pixel imaging camera, can photograph 5.7 square degrees of sky. The camera has six light filters which span from ultraviolet to near infrared wavelengths. The SkyMapper telescope was built to carry out the Southern Sky Survey, which will image the entire southern sky several times over in SkyMapper's six spectral filters over the course of five years. This survey will be analogous to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey of the Northern hemisphere sky. It has several enhancements, including temporal coverage, more precise measu ...
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Siding may refer to: * Siding (construction), the outer covering or cladding of a house * Siding (rail) A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur. It may connect to through track or to other sidings at either end. Sidings often have lighte ..., a track section See also * {{disambiguation fr:Parement nl:Parement ...
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Great Melbourne Telescope
The Great Melbourne Telescope was built by Thomas Grubb in Dublin, Ireland in 1868, and installed at the Melbourne Observatory in Melbourne, Australia in 1869. In 1945 that Observatory closed and the telescope was sold and moved to the Mount Stromlo Observatory near Canberra. It was rebuilt in the late 1950s. In 2003 the telescope, still in use as an observatory, was severely damaged in a bushfire. About 70% of the components were salvageable; a project to restore the telescope to working condition started in 2013. With a 48 inch (1.2 metre) diameter primary mirror, it was one of the largest telescopes of the late 19th century. This is a significant size even into the 21st century, although the lower reflecting ability of speculum metal mirrors (about 2/3 reflected) makes them inferior to later metal-on-glass designs or large refractors. This was significantly larger than the largest refractors of the period such as the Lick telescope and Yerkes, although those were both in the n ...
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