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Hale reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope at Mount Wilson, and the 200-inch Hale reflecting telescope at

inconspicuous on photographs, the curves stand out strongly in my 10-inch [reflecting telescope], and the bright red star near the center of the cluster is prominent

Lick Observatory in 1905 in photographs taken with the 36" Crossley reflecting telescope which he had recently rebuilt. It is the eighth-largest moon of Jupiter

astronomer Alex R. Gibbs of the Mount Lemmon Survey with a 1.5-meter reflecting telescope on 28 May 2012. The asteroid had a close approach to the Earth on

54 m (21 in) reflecting telescope was installed in 1963 and was replaced in 1972 by the Schmidt camera. A 0.7 m (28 in) reflecting telescope was installed

to survey the diffuse infrared sky. Measurements were made with a reflecting telescope with 19 cm diameter aperture. The goal was to obtain brightness maps

Observatory site at Saltsjöbaden was established with a 40-inch (102 cm) reflecting telescope from Grubb, built in 1931. Also of historical interest is a double

Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT) is a 3.8 metre (150 inch) infrared reflecting telescope, the second largest dedicated infrared (1 to 30 micrometres) telescope

(48 km) southeast of Albuquerque. It had a 0.6 m (24 in) Cassegrain reflecting telescope built by Boller and Chivens and was equipped with a CCD. The mirror

the design Gregorian telescope. This was the first design for a reflecting telescope, and pre-dates Newton's design; however Newton is better known as

17+1⁄4-inch (438 mm) aperture reflecting telescope, which was later supplemented by a 24-inch (620 mm) aperture reflecting telescope. Espin discovered many nebulae

Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, famous for the Leviathan of Parsonstown, a reflecting telescope and the largest telescope of this age with a six-foot mirror. It

At this location there is also the larger 24-inch Richey-Chretian reflecting telescope, installed in 2006, which has been made accessible for public tours

telescope on Palomar Mountain in the 1960s and later at Caltech's 60" reflecting telescope, also on Palomar. The official naming citation was published by the

further developed by his father, and mainly operated the 1.2-meter reflecting telescope which was planned to be built by Hermann. In 1939, shortly after

granulation in the Sun's photosphere. Stratoscope II, a 36-inch (91.4 cm) reflecting telescope, flew from 1963 to 1971. This larger project proved to be beyond

publicly accessible, and include a science museum and a café, a reflecting telescope which was the largest in the world for decades and a modern radio

observatory's primary instrument is a 32 in (81 cm) Ritchey-Chrétien reflecting telescope attached to an equatorial mount. It was built by Sigma Research and

house one 16-inch Newtonian Cassegrain reflecting telescope and one 14-inch Schmitt Cassegrain reflecting telescope. Unlike some more modern observatories

UVS, the optical section and an electronics box. It has a small reflecting telescope and also a scan mirror, and it can do long-slit spectrography. UVS

of the Beloit College Class of 1892. The instrument was a 22-inch reflecting telescope. It was removed when Chamberlin Hall was demolished to make way for

director, Henri Perrotin, in observing the planet with a 15 in (38 cm) reflecting telescope. Both men reported that they spotted canali on the surface of the

operating the telescope. The 1.02 m (40 in) CSS (Catalina Sky Survey) reflecting telescope is an unusual Pressman-Camichel design and is used to provide automated

(41 degree) field of view, f/4 optics, and 1.4 m aperture. It is a reflecting telescope on a double horseshoe mount. MCAT is located on Ascension Island

the succeeding year devised a method of testing the mirror of a reflecting telescope to determine its shape. The so-called "Foucault knife-edge test"

dome and a fully robotic 17-inch (0.43 m) corrected Dall-Kirkham reflecting telescope coupled with a 10.7-megapixel CCD camera. The observatory is used

Fellow of the Royal Society of London and it then demonstrates his reflecting telescope to King Charles II of England. February 13 – Étienne François Geoffroy

largest optical telescope in New Zealand. This is a 1.0 m Dall-Kirkham reflecting telescope run at either f/7.7 or f/13.5. It was installed in February 1986

rising 26 feet to the top of the dome. It houses a 24-inch Cassegrain reflecting telescope built by DFM Engineering of Longmont, Colorado. The observatory houses

In 1961 the Central Missouri Amateur Astronomers built a 12-inch reflecting telescope which they donated to the observatory. It is housed in a building

36-inch (910 mm) mirror from Calver to mount in a larger Newtonian reflecting telescope he was building. He used it to make further observations of satellites

5 m (21 ft) in diameter and houses a 0.61 m (2 ft 0 in) Newtonian reflecting telescope. A club meeting room hosts society meetings and also serves as a

2.15 m (85 in) Jorge Sahade Telescope (JS) is a Ritchey-Chrètien reflecting telescope built by Boller & Chivens. The 40-ton telescope is supported by an

described a precursor to the modern wind tunnel. Newton built the first reflecting telescope and developed a sophisticated theory of colour based on the observation

Unnamed 60cm reflecting telescope

classical mechanics Newtonian potential Newtonian telescope, a type of reflecting telescope Post-Newtonian expansion Newton Township, Miami County, Ohio, United

exclusive contract with Secretan for the commercialization of a reflecting telescope. Upon the death of Secretan in 1867, the company’s management first

Association for Research in Astronomy (SARA) South Telescope is a reflecting telescope built by Boller and Chivens. Installed in 1968 for the International

in the Minor Planet Circulars in 1983, then obtained with a 15-cm reflecting telescope. On 29 April 1989, the observatory was officially inaugurated, when

Unnamed 20cm refracting telescope Unnamed 50cm reflecting telescope

Drawing by John M. Pierce of a simple Newtonian reflecting telescope. From "How To Make A Reflecting Telescope" (1934)

Drawing by John M. Pierce of a simple Newtonian reflecting telescope. From "How To Make A Reflecting Telescope" (1934)

Maksutov design Reflecting Telescope Optics: Basic design theory and its historical development, By Ray N. Wilson page 150 Reflecting Telescope Optics, by

Eratosthenes. The model was based on observations made by Blunt with his reflecting telescope from his home in Shrewsbury. A full description of the model's presentation

Centuries and Mirror to Discovery: The 200-Inch Disk and the Hale Reflecting Telescope at Palomar. Several special exhibitions are offered at the museum

technology involved some significant events. Isaac Newton invents the reflecting telescope. Francesco Redi publishes Esperienze Intorno alla Generazione degl'Insetti

was discovered on 2 May 1785 by William Herschel with an 18.7-inch reflecting telescope, who described it as "F, cL" (faint, considerably large) in his catalogues

Théorique et Instrumentale. 14 (5): 169–202. Wilson, R. N. (2007). Reflecting Telescope Optics I. Springer. p. 227. ISBN 978-3-540-40106-3. Baker, J.G. (1969)

Unnamed 1.03m reflecting telescope

Zwolle: Waanders. ISBN 90-400-9454-3. Retrieved 27 April 2022. Reflecting Telescope Optics, By Ray N. Wilson, page 498. Google Books, pg 498 Wikimedia

Fellow of the Royal Society of London and it then demonstrates his reflecting telescope to the King. 25 January – the Theatre Royal in Bridges Street in

conical-shaped sound reflector to focus the signals, in a similar manner to a reflecting telescope. This type of hydrophone can be produced from a low-cost omnidirectional

was built containing a 1963 vintage 12" Dall-Kirkham Cassegrain reflecting telescope belonging to the Astronomical Society of South Australia (ASSA),

had taken photographic plates with the Yerkes 24-inch (60.96 cm) reflecting telescope in 1916. Plates were taken using the same telescope in 1908 by F

9-meter-diameter dome. Inside, the dome has a 2.4-meter-diameter reflecting telescope with automatic control systems. The telescope is located on a pier

light 1998). Wilson retired in 1993, writing a two-volume monograph Reflecting Telescope Optics, a leading work in the field. He also extended the design

Eratosthenes. The model is based on observations made by Blunt with a reflecting telescope from his home in Shrewsbury and was displayed in the same year at

telescope was built by Dom Noel in the late 18th century, and was a reflecting telescope with a 61 cm aperture bronze mirror. In 1805 the mirror was re-polished

A Klevtsov-Cassegrain reflecting telescope

discovered the comet based on images acquired by the sky survey's 1.5-m reflecting telescope on 23 March 2012. However, Gibbs did not recognize its cometary appearance

Tobin, William (1987). "Foucault's invention of the silvered-glass reflecting telescope and the history of his 80-cm reflector at the observatoire de Marseille"

Reflecting telescope after Isaac Newton by William Herschel, built to order in 1790 and formerly used in the observatory

small area. To get at this small area, however, one must go inside a reflecting telescope, and one good way to do this is to use support rods, which are right

reflector 40-foot telescope (England) Armagh Observatory 15-inch Grubb reflecting telescope. Specula metal mirror mounted on an equatorial, with clockwork-drive

James Short's reflecting telescope

Patchick on 16 August 1987. He used a home built 17.5" Dobsonian reflecting telescope for the visual discovery. The supernova was found as part of a team

detection. The upper building with the 5-metre dome has a 0.70-metre reflecting telescope with CCD primarily for space debris research and registration devices

A replica of a second reflecting telescope Newton presented to the Royal Society in 1672 (the first one he made in 1668 was loaned to an instrument maker

He also measured temperatures of stars using a 36-inch diameter reflecting telescope. During the Second World War, Hunter was transferred temporarily

taking a 20-minute-long daguerreotype image using a 5-inch (13 cm) reflecting telescope. In the early 1900s, photographers including Alfred Stieglitz and

Gross, Hannfried Zügge, Fritz Blechinger, Bertram Achtner, page 806 Reflecting Telescope Optics: Basic design theory and its historical development by Ray

wavelength range of the SSI. NIMS used a 229 mm (9 in) aperture reflecting telescope. The spectrometer used a grating to disperse the light collected

Photographer. London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney Ld. Ray N. Wilson (2004). Reflecting Telescope Optics. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-40106-3. New York Times Staff (2004)

The new observatory contained a more technologically advanced 24" reflecting telescope and replaced the Sproul Observatory for education and public outreach

to use the Steward gift to construct a 36-inch diameter Newtonian reflecting telescope. The Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland, Ohio was contracted to

Browning made a number of instruments for Lockyer, among them an 8-inch reflecting telescope that was delivered to Lockyer in 1871 and now greets visitors near

background radiation than a focusing-optics imager (e.g., a refracting or reflecting telescope), and therefore is normally not favored at wavelengths where these

Crossley reflector was used extensively before the 120 in. Shane Reflecting Telescope (C. Donald Shane Telescope) was built in 1959. "Monthly Notices of

Apollo 9 lunar module Spider, a support for the secondary mirror of a reflecting telescope Spider, a component of a loudspeaker AMD Spider, a computer platform

and Slitless Spectrograph (JWST component) Wilson, Ray N. (2004). Reflecting Telescope Optics, Volume 1: Basic design theory and its historical development

North, part of the Faulkes Telescope Project, is a 2.0-meter (79 in) reflecting telescope owned and operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope

sunshine recorder. In the 1830s the observatory bought a 15-inch reflecting telescope from the Grubb Telescope Company. The telescope used a speculum metal

that could be carried away was stolen or broken; among which was a reflecting telescope, a barometer, and thermometer; a great many papers and sketches of

electricity Bentley Planetarium Observatory, with a 20-inch Planewave reflecting telescope and a Coronado solar scope Theater Banquet halls The Vault, sub-gallery

Rise in North London from where he observed with a 12-inch aperture reflecting telescope he had manufactured himself. His targets included double stars. Holmes

Dall-Kirkham reflecting telescope, built by Horace Edward Dall

Escutcheon Argent on a mount Vert a representation of the forty feet reflecting telescope with its apparatus Proper a chief Azure thereon the astronomical

instrument called the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager. LORRI was a reflecting telescope but incorporated a field-flattening lens, with three elements. Petzval

Hall of astronomy, and a dome was created to house a 16 in (410 mm) reflecting telescope for public use, currently the largest public telescope in Ireland

donations to the observatory and for the installation of a 37 1/2-inch reflecting telescope. He was able to expand the astronomy department from twelve students

on 3 December 1904 in photographs taken with the 36-inch Crossley reflecting telescope which he had recently rebuilt. Himalia is Jupiter's most easily observed

the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, about a reflecting telescope he had built on his own. The assistant to the director of the Hayden

it can have disastrous consequences. Looking down the front of a reflecting telescope in direct unfiltered sunlight is no different than staring into the

notable in having its own astronomy department complete with its own reflecting telescope mounted within a free-standing observatory on the school grounds

expensive to purchase commercially. A 12-to-16-inch (300 to 410 mm) reflecting telescope is difficult, but still within the ability of the average amateur

of the Morehead building, houses a 24-inch (61 cm) Perkin-Elmer reflecting telescope operated by the UNC Physics and Astronomy Department. Faint object

half-scale pilot model of the 37-inch (94 cm) Schmidt Cassegrain reflecting telescope now installed in the James Gregory building at St. Andrews. This

Escutcheon Argent on a mount Vert a representation of the forty feet reflecting telescope with its apparatus Proper a chief Azure thereon the astronomical

Oran in 1870 to photograph the solar eclipse. In 1871 he acquired a reflecting telescope of 12 inches (30.5 cm) aperture and set it up in a dome in the gardens

to stellar research. Between 1953 and 1974, the 74-inch (1.9 m) reflecting telescope at Mount Stromlo was the largest optical telescope in Australia.

William Eichens (1818-1884). They were involved in setting up the reflecting telescope at for Leon Foucalt (1819-1868) at Marseille in 1863. When Eichens

The size of the universe, 1948, Penguin Books. A Description of a Reflecting Telescope with Unusual Features, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical

home to a two-story observatory, equipped with a 14-inch (360 mm) reflecting telescope, and a planetarium that offers public shows twice monthly. The university

(23 cm) reflecting coronagraph, and a 16-inch (41 cm) Cassegrain reflecting telescope. In 1997, the primary BBSO telescope was in the 50-centimetre (20 in)

Schmidt-Cassegrain and a 16-inch (410 mm) Cassegrain. The 16-inch Cassegrain Reflecting Telescope (with CCD attached camera) is on loan to MSU from Cerro Tololo Inter-American

finally chosen. He lived in Rosebank, Cape Town where he built a 200mm reflecting telescope and a small observatory at his house, Craigie Brae which was in Liesbeek

elects Isaac Newton to its membership, and then demonstrates Newton's reflecting telescope to King Charles II. January 13 – Pope Clement X issues regulations

Department of the Interior in Ottawa. The 180-centimetre (72 in) reflecting telescope was the largest of its kind in the world when it was built, though

away. The original telescope, a 16-inch (410 mm; 41 cm) Cassegrain reflecting telescope built by the Adler optical and machine shop staff, was retired in

cote LH/1692/16. William Tobin "Evolution of the Foucault-Secretan Reflecting Telescope.” Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 19(2), 106–184 (2016)

the larger 61-inch (1.54-meter) mirror. It was the “first large reflecting telescope, designed, built entirely in Argentina (1913-18), and used with success”

Nebula in Cygnus (In modern times the Veil Nebula); taken with the two-foot reflecting telescope with 3 hours exposure at the Yerkes Observatory in 1901.

reported as being operational. A 0.3 m (12 in) Newtonian/Cassegrain reflecting telescope built by J.W. Fecker, Inc. was installed in 1963. A 0.2 m (7.9 in)

Springer. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-306-44826-3. Ray N. Wilson (2004). Reflecting Telescope Optics I: Basic Design Theory and Its Historical Development. Springer

cote LH/114/21. "William Tobin. "Evolution of the Foucault-Secretan Reflecting Telescope." Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 19(2), 106–184 (2016)"

club continued expanding and in 1979 a 12.5" Cave Astrola Newtonian reflecting telescope was installed in the Culver roll-off observatory. In the 1990s, a

equipped with a 90-centimeter Cassegrain reflector, the largest reflecting telescope of all private observatories in Switzerland. Inaugurated in summer

From the Earth to the Moon as the location of a 16 feet (192-inch) reflecting telescope called "the Telescope of the Rocky Mountains", built for the purpose

The observatory was equipped with a 1.9-metre (74-inch) aperture reflecting telescope, then the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere. A new spectrograph

660450°N 138.186743°E / 36.660450; 138.186743 (Zenkōji Daikanjin) [1] Reflecting Telescope 反射望遠鏡 hansha bōenkyō 1834 Ueda Ueda City Museum (上田市立博物館) work of

Irving as additional authors) Baker, Robert H. (1928) The 30-inch Reflecting Telescope and Photoelectric Photometer of the University of Illinois. Popular

of a telescope belonging to close friend Jim Stevens, a 17.5-inch reflecting telescope. On the night of July 22, 1995, eight members of the club met at

nebulous objects being probably artificially created from the handmade reflecting telescope he had constructed himself. He found many new open star clusters

(13 cm) in aperture. The small field of view of the 42-inch (110 cm) reflecting telescope rendered the instrument impractical for searching. From 1914 to 1916

notification from the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission. A 16 in (0.41 m) reflecting telescope built by DFM Engineering was originally located at the Rankin Science

included a second dome and space for a new 37+1⁄2-inch (950 mm) reflecting telescope. The director's residence was demolished in 1954 to make way for

1525/9780520908031-007. ISBN 978-0-520-90803-1. Wilson, Todd (2007), Reflecting Telescope Optics I: Basic Design Theory and its Historical Development, Springer

1525/9780520908031-007. ISBN 978-0-520-90803-1. Wilson, Todd (2007), Reflecting Telescope Optics I: Basic Design Theory and its Historical Development, Springer

Telescope, formally known as Francis C. McMath Memorial 24-Inch Reflecting Telescope, was built in 1940 and installed at the nearby McMath–Hulbert Observatory

August 1995. The observatory's main telescope was a 1.6 m (63 in) reflecting telescope. The primary instrument attached to the telescope was a fiber-fed

elongation. — William Herschel The 40-foot telescope was a metal mirror reflecting telescope built by Herschel, with a 48-inch (1,200 mm) aperture. The 40 feet

(holiday home) in Te Anau, and took up astronomy and built a six-inch reflecting telescope which formed the basis of a home observatory, followed in 1959 by

Reflecting Telescope Optics: Basic design theory and its historical development, Astronomy and astrophysics library; Volume 1 of Reflecting Telescope

graduate students. He was also an amateur astronomer, using a six-inch reflecting telescope for which he ground the mirror. Fellow mathematician Martin Gardner

containing a 14-inch (355mm) Meade LX200 ACF Schmidt Cassegrain reflecting telescope acquired in 2011. It can be computer controlled, and is used visually

Hampstead resident, Colonel Henry Heberden JP, had a 10.5-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope that he wanted to donate to a Society in order for it to be made

Harvard President Josiah Quincy III noted that "there is wanted a reflecting telescope equatorially mounted". This telescope, the 15-inch "Great Refractor"

Observatory. Hogg began taking photos of variable stars with the 72-inch reflecting telescope, cataloguing the cyclical changes in the brightness of the variable

Tzec Maun Foundation. As of April 2013[update], a 1.0 m (39 in) reflecting telescope was being tested in the main dome. GEODSS List of astronomical observatories

made plans to use the Steward gift to construct a 36-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope. The Warner & Swayze Company of Cleveland, Ohio was contracted to

his various hobbies including astronomy. He built his own 20-inch reflecting telescope, in the process inventing the Nasmyth focus, and made detailed observations

landscaped park with waterfalls, rivers and a lake, as well as the large reflecting telescope, the Leviathan of Parsonstown, and the modern radio-telescope, I-LOFAR

his astronomical pursuits. His initial equipment was a 9.5-inch reflecting telescope in Grahamstown but he later used a 76 mm refractor and a more powerful

Herschel also took time to help him install a new 14 feet (4.3 m) reflecting telescope (of Ure's design and manufacture). He was elected a Fellow of the

a high probability that both are correct." Wilson, R.N. (1999). Reflecting telescope optics II: manufacture, testing, alignment, modern techniques. Vol

British Association for the Advancement of Science calls for a large reflecting telescope to be erected in the Southern Hemisphere. 1853 First astronomical

photography, number theory, and natural history. He made his own reflecting telescope and bred and collected Lepidoptera. Richards, F. J. (1959). "A Flexible

Center has a four-story observatory which houses a 22-inch (560 mm) reflecting telescope and is used for research (primarily of binary star systems) by the

in Argentina and promoted the construction of the 60-inch/1.54 m reflecting telescope at Bosque Alegre which was completed in 1942 after his retirement

Globe of Honcheonsigye, Cheonsang Yeolcha Bunyajido C14 star map and reflecting telescope at Bohyeonsan Observatory in the background January 22, 2007 Series

clear that Marsili and Galileo were developing the concept of the reflecting telescope, an idea that was to be developed by Cavalieri. As prominent member

Spiegelteleskops von B. Schmidt (Elementary Theory of B. Schmidt's Reflecting Telescope), Leipzig Teubner, 1940 36 pp.; Ges. math. Schr. II 234–279 Funktionentheorie

spotted Triton with his self-built 61 cm (24 in) aperture metal mirror reflecting telescope (also known as the "two-foot" reflector). This telescope was donated

Retrieved 22 February 2022. Zeiss refractor telescope at AIP 122 cm Reflecting Telescope formerly in Babelsberg Observatory for Solar Radio Astronomy Archived

Type of reflecting telescope

ramifications." During the Princeton years, Artin built a 6-inch (15 cm) reflecting telescope to plans he found in the magazine Sky and Telescope, which he subscribed

University of Chicago Press. 1900. Wilson, Raymond N. (2001-07-17). Reflecting Telescope Optics II: Manufacture, Testing, Alignment, Modern Techniques. Springer

A Boeing 747SP with a modified fuselage enabling it to carry a reflecting telescope developed in Germany is used as an airborne research platform. The

reported it (on 26 April 1781) as a comet. With a homemade 6.2-inch reflecting telescope, Herschel "engaged in a series of observations on the parallax of

was cataloged based on observations made with Herschel's 18.7-inch reflecting telescope. NGC 1162 is a lenticular galaxy, denoted as SA0^−^ in the Hubble

Corbett telescope had also been used as a guide scope on the Lassell reflecting telescope in the 1880s. The 6.5 inch telescope was originally purchased used

telescope in honour of the celebrated inventor of the Newtonian reflecting telescope. Some two decades of development led to the commissioning of the

initial effort and Hooke's improvement, Isaac Newton had built a reflecting telescope – but because its mirror was made from polished steel, it tarnished

observed by William Herschel on October 14, 1784, using his 18.7-inch reflecting telescope. The galaxy was later cataloged in the New General Catalogue (NGC)

A Zeiss 100 cm aperture reflecting telescope

first true map of the universe with a 40-foot (12 m) long, 49 inch reflecting telescope he built in his garden in Windsor Road, Slough. A monument in Windsor

April 27, 2014. Herschel, W. (1795). "Description of a Forty-feet Reflecting Telescope". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 85:

designed to part in the middle on two sets of tracks to expose the reflecting telescope inside to the night sky. Its slatted exterior walls stabilize the

discoverer of the infinite series and designer of the first practical reflecting telescope, the Gregorian telescope. James Blair, founder of The College of

A reflecting telescope at Bowling Green State University

Observatory which houses the college's high-powered 12-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope. The telescope is used for research by the college, local government

adaptive optics coronagraph to sharpen images from the 60-inch (1.5 m) reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory on Southern California's Mount Palomar; follow-up

consist of: The Observatory building housing the 24 inch (610 mm) reflecting telescope and an adjoining room; A sliding roof observatory housing a 30-inch

Parson and Co., Newcastle upon Tyne, England, maker of the 40-inch reflecting telescope of the Simeis Observatory DMP · 1058 1059 Mussorgskia 1925 OA Modest

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is a wide-field survey reflecting telescope with an 8.4 meter primary mirror, currently under construction on

by Robert Hooke. 1668 Sir Isaac Newton invents the first working reflecting telescope. 1698 The first commercial steam-powered device, a water pump, is

11, 2023. Young, R. K. (January 1930), "The Building of a 19-inch Reflecting Telescope (With Plates II, III)", Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society

1983 WF1 The Leviathan of Parsonstown, the nickname of the great reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, County Offaly, Ireland. JPL · 8813 8814 Rosseven

elects Isaac Newton to its membership, and then demonstrates Newton's reflecting telescope to King Charles II. January 13 – Pope Clement X issues regulations

character – Cassandra Laurent Cassegrain, French inventor – Cassegrain reflecting telescope John Cassell, English publisher and businessman – his eponymous product

Star Catalog GTC – (telescope) Gran Telescopio Canarias, the 10.4 m reflecting telescope on the island of La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain GW – (celestial

Observatory near Victoria, British Columbia. The 1.88 m (72 inch) reflecting telescope there had been proposed and designed by John Plaskett in 1910 with

gravitation, Newton's laws of motion, Newton's rings, Newtonian reflecting telescope. Martin Newell, British-American computer scientist and coder - Newell

astronomy nationwide Completed 3.6m DOT is currently the largest reflecting telescope in Asia. DOT is a clear-aperture Ritchey–Chrétien telescope built