The word telescope was coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. In the Starry Messenger, … 查看更多內容

Since the atmosphere is opaque for most of the electromagnetic spectrum, only a few bands can be observed from the Earth's surface. These bands are visible – near-infrared and a portion of the radio-wave part of the spectrum. For this reason there are no X … 查看更多內容

• List of optical telescopes
• List of largest optical reflecting telescopes
• List of largest optical refracting telescopes
• List of largest optical telescopes historically 查看更多內容

• Elliott, Robert S. (1966), Electromagnetics, McGraw-Hill
• King, Henry C. (1979). The history of the telescope. … 查看更多內容

The earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey for a refracting telescope. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through … 查看更多內容

The name "telescope" covers a wide range of instruments. Most detect electromagnetic radiation, but there are major differences in how astronomers must go about … 查看更多內容

• Airmass
• Amateur telescope making
• Angular resolution
• ASCOM open standards for computer control of telescopes 查看更多內容