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  1. Reflecting Telescope - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

    A reflecting telescope is defined as an optical system that uses a concave mirror to gather and reflect light, forming a real image of distant objects, such as stars, in its focal plane. This type …

  2. Refracting Telescope - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

    A refracting telescope is defined as an optical instrument that uses lenses to bend light and form images, characterized by a larger field of view, stable quality of star images, and minimal …

  3. Foucault's invention of the silvered-glass reflecting telescope and …

    Jan 1, 1987 · It is only now, 130 years after Foucault's first silvered-glass telescope, that fundamentally new ideas such as active and adaptive optics and steel and tesselated mirrors …

  4. Active compensation for perturbed coaxial reflecting space …

    Jun 15, 2023 · Active compensation for perturbed coaxial reflecting space telescope (CRST) is an effective and important means to improve the image quality, which has been widely used in …

  5. The Ritchey-Chretien reflecting telescope: Half a century from ...

    Mar 1, 1987 · chey-Chretien Reflecting Telescope: Half a Century from Conception to Acceptance John S. Hall Introduction was a graduate student at the Yale Observatory a little more than fifty …

  6. Leonard and Thomas Digges - ScienceDirect

    Jun 1, 1992 · Leonard by his invention of an actual reflecting telescope, and prob- ably the refractor also, Thomas not only by promoting it but also by his own use of it on the heavens …

  7. History of the reflecting telescope - ScienceDirect

    The labours of Short soon gave it celebrity; yet even this artist limit- :t93 History of the Reflecting Telescope. ed himself in almost every instance to sizes which were not more powerful than the …

  8. Analysis and reduction of back-reflection straylight in laser ranging ...

    Aug 1, 2024 · The optical structure of the telescope system is illustrated in Fig. 2. However, due to the design of the coaxial telescope and the shared optical path for the laser emitting and …

  9. On the nature of thin films of speculum metal - ScienceDirect

    Sep 1, 2018 · The combined use of AFM and XRD analyses at the reflecting surface of cast and thin film form of material samples reveal the presence of a thin, transparent layer called ‘Beilby …

  10. New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes

    Jan 1, 2014 · The telescope has played a critical role in planetary science from the moment of its use by Galileo in 1608. His observations of the craters on our Moon and the moons of Jupiter …