PDF-TELESCOPES: An Introduction to Your Galileoscope

Telescopes and the group project149 As an exciting new experiment each group will build their telescope149 Then each of you will carry out an observing project to assess the likelihood 149 We. Big Science: Big Telescopes. Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre. Contents. Part 1: Gravity on Earth. Mass or weight?. The strength of Earth’s gravity. Part 2: Big Telescopes. How do we see space?. Part 3: Gravity in Space. Essential Questions- You should be able to answer these questions by the end of the PowerPoint.. What is the purpose of a telescope?. How do refracting telescopes work?. How do reflecting telescopes work?. Telescopes. Key Concepts. What are the regions of the electromagnetic spectrum?. What are telescopes and how do they work?. Where are most large telescopes located?. Telescopes - Key Terms. Telescope. Telescopes were first invented around the year 1600. . Galileo . Galilei was an early astronomer who first used telescopes to view objects in our solar system. . He . made many important discoveries including: the moon was covered in mountains and Jupiter had 4 large moons.. 3: Telescopes. Images can be formed through reflection or refraction.. Reflecting mirror. 3.1 Optical Telescopes. Image formation. Modern telescopes are all reflectors:. Light traveling through lens is refracted differently depending on wavelength.. S. R. Kulkarni. Caltech Optical Observatories. Workhorse Instruments. Optical Imagers & Spectrographs. NIR Imagers & Spectrographs and so on. Specialized Instruments. Polarimeters. , Rapid spectroscopy, .. . Agenda. Turn in Displacement Lab work. Turn in Permission slips. Notes on . Studying Space & . Exploring . Space packet. Studying space from Earth. Tele. = distance. Scopos. = to watch. Light and radiation (energy in the form of waves that travel through empty space). Big. . Glass. Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). Las . Campanas. , Chile. First Light 2024. Large Binocular Telescope (LBTO). Mt Graham, AZ, 2007. Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Cerro . Pachon. From geocentric to heliocentric and beyond. By brain . cannon, . 1. st. Period PLTW. Earth-centered universe. Sun-centered universe. Forward Thinking. “. By . taking our sense of sight far beyond the realm of our forebears' imagination, these wonderful instruments, the telescopes, open the way to a deeper and more perfect understanding of nature. How astronomers study space. Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR). Light can travel through empty space. All EMR travels at the speed of light. . 3 x 10. 8. m/sec. Astronomers study different types of EMR. Chapter 3 Telescopes. © 2017 Pearson Education, Inc.. Units of Chapter 3. Optical Telescopes. Telescope Size. High-Resolution Astronomy. Radio Astronomy. Space-Based Astronomy. Summary of Chapter 3. Diffraction of Light. Newton pointed . out in his 1704 book . Opticks. , that "Light is never known to follow crooked passages nor to bend into the shadow". . This concept is consistent with the particle theory, which proposes that light particles must always travel in straight lines.. . Size does matter. The bigger, the better. 2. Resolve detail. 3. Magnification. Only important for solar system objects. Refracting Telescopes. Cheap. Good for bright objects. Basic design. Reflecting Telescopes. EEE Project. E. . Bossini. , C. Cicalò, . D. De . Gruttola,. I. . Gnesi. , M. Garbini, S. . Grazzi. , M.P. . Panetta. EEE meeting. 22. /03/. 2017. beta . ditributions. . for . all. . telescopes. .