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Parts of a Telescope
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A _______ uses 2 lenses and one of them is used to look through and the other is the larger lens that focuses the image.
What is a Refractor?
100
Before there were telescopes poeple used this as their tool to look at the stars and the moon and the galaxy.
What is naked eye?
100
The primary focuses light, it determines the type of _____ telescope.
What is reflecting?
100
______ is what you look through to see the things you do.
What is an eye piece?
200
This image is magnified and seen through the eye piece.
What is a sharp image?
200
In 1608, the first optical telescope was invented and worked by the Dutch lens-grinder.
Who is Hans Lippershey?
200
When people use the photographic plate, the Prime Focus Position, the plate is located at the top of the _____.
What is a scope?
200
The entire thing that you hold onto when you carry it.
What is the body?
300
Light is gathered at the bottom of the scope by a concave mirror.
What is a Primary?
300
Telescopes can operate at most frequencies of the ___________ ___________, from radio waves to gamma rays.
What is electromagnetic spectrum?
300
The ______ ________ of a telescope is light gathering, the more light you get, the more you can see.
What is primary function?
300
The first lens on the Telescope.
What is an objective lens?
400
_________ combines elements of refractors and reflectors in its design.
What is Catadioptric?
400
Largest orbiting optical telescope and best known is... (HST)
What is Hubble Space Telescope?
400
This isn't the most important factor on a telescope, there are other factors ahead of this such as the eye piece.
What is Magnification?
400
A photographic plate used to focus the image.
What is the Prime Focus Position?
500
There were 3 designs of this and also a few more but aren't a very important.
What are Telescopes?
500
The art of _______ and polishing the glass lenses for the telescope took to long at the very beginning of finding out and figuring out the telescope.
What is grinding?
500
The first observations with a telescope, people found 4 things. [4 of Jupiter's moons] {Lunar mountains} [Starry Milky Way] {______}
What is sunspots?
500
A telescope is an ________.
What is an instrument?