Eduscience JS005 My First 15X Telescope

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This is a 130 mm (5") Newtonian telescope on a simple alt-az mount (often referred to as a Dobsonian, but not a true Dob).

One final and very important reason for Palomar's endurance is the telescope itself, a marvel of engineering that still runs smoothly 75 years later.Zoom In to Image Pictured here are just some members of Palomar's staff who keep the observatory running smoothly.

Both telescopes were developed by Caltech co-founder George Ellery Hale, widely considered to be one of the greatest telescope builders of all time. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.Astronomers have already written nearly 1,000 papers involving ZTF data in just the five years that it's been in operation. One of these, the Samuel Oschin Telescope, a workhorse also known as the 48-inch, recently celebrated its own 75th anniversary (its first light occurred in September 1948). In her spare time, Mueller would scan the plates for stars that appeared in and around galaxies and mark the galaxy with a red felt pen.

In addition, the 200-inch serves as the receiving end of NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications experiment, which recently transmitted a cat video via lasers down to the telescope, demonstrating a new way to beam high-bandwidth data from space. At lower elevations, you have to look through more atmosphere, which smears out the stars from small pinpoints of light to large fuzzy blobs. Edu Science – My First 15X Telescope: This My First 15x Telescope set includes a telescope with a 15x magnification and a tripod for steady tabletop viewing. Other discoveries from the 48-inch include that of the dwarf planet Eris by Mike Brown, Caltech's Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy, in 2005.Palomar's 60-inch telescope, which opened in 1970, would later join in this hierarchical scheme to follow up on discoveries made by the 48-inch. Shri Kulkarni, the George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science, and the director of Palomar Observatory from 2006–18, remembers what it was like in the cage.