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Telescopes
Refractors and ReflectorsVarious Designs
Important PropertiesModern Advances
Beyond Visible Light
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Basic Optics - Refraction
• Light is bent or refracted when it changes speed going through a lens or prism.
• Where the refracted rays meet is the “focal point.”
• Distance from the lens to the focal point is the “focal length.”
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Basic Optics - Reflection
• When light strikes a mirror it is reflected at an angle equal to its incident angle.
• Rays of light striking a curved mirror will meet at a “focal point.”
• The distance from the vertex of the mirror to the focal point is the “focal length.”
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Reflectors and Refractors
• A reflector telescope has a mirror as its objective.
• A refractor telescope has a lens as its objective.
• The main function of a telescope is to “gather light.”
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Chromatic Aberration• Different wavelengths focus at different
distances• World’s Largest Refractor - Yerkes
Observatory
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Reflectors
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Why Mirrors?
• Light gathering power - size matters!
• lgp increases with the square of the radius
• More lgp, more resolution!
• Magnification is third!
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200’ Hale Telescope Mt. Palomar
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Comparing lgp
• lgp depends upon the area of the lens or mirror; A = r2
• lgp = (Dbig/Dsmall)2
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Calculating Magnification
M =fobj
feye
Mmax = 20 x Dcm
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Practical Limit of Magnification
• Smaller focal length eyepieces give greater magnification.
• They also limit light & increase diffraction.
• At some point the image is too poor to be useful.
Mmax = 20X____cm
x D
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Resolving Power
• The ability of a telescope to distinguish two objects.
• Measured in arcseconds ( 1 arcsecond is 1/3600)
a =11.58_______
D (in cm)
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Modern Advances• Binocular Telescopes• LBT - two 8.4 m mirrors with adaptive
optics• LGP of an 11.8 m mirror• Detail of a 22.4 m mirror• Surpasses HST in clarity
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Adaptive Optics• Correct for atmospheric turbulence• Use the light from a guide star or laser
to determine what the atmosphere is doing to the light passing through it.
• Distortable mirror will change shape to correct the image.
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Beyond Visible LightRadio Telescopes
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VLA Telescope
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UV and X-Ray Telescopes
SOHO
Chandra
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HST and James Webb