Optical Telescopes, Part 3
18 entries in the Optical Telescopes, Part 3 compendium.
Sarah L. Krizmanich TelescopeA 0.8-m reflector used for undergraduate research and outreach at Notre Dame.Southern African Large TelescopeLargest optical telescope in the Southern Hemisphere, optimized for spectroscopy.Southern Astrophysical Research TelescopeModern 4.1-meter telescope on Cerro Pachón, Chile, commissioned in 2003.Space Surveillance TelescopeA US Space Force telescope tracking space debris and near-Earth objects.Swiss 1.2-metre Leonhard Euler TelescopeFully automatic 1.2-metre reflector used for exoplanet detection and characterization.VLT Survey TelescopeLargest telescope designed exclusively for visible-light sky surveys.Wide Field Survey TelescopeChinese time-domain survey telescope with a 2.5-metre mirror.Yapp telescope36-inch Cassegrain reflector, largest at Greenwich until the late 1950s.Yerkes 41-inch reflector40-inch Ritchey–Chrétien reflector completed in 1968 at Yerkes Observatory.Arago telescope38 cm refractor at Paris Observatory, used for photometry and double stars.Baden-Powell's unilensThe simplest telescope, using one lens for up to 4× magnification.Carnegie telescopeTwin refractor for astrophotographic surveys of stellar motion.MonocularA compact refracting telescope using prisms for an erect image.Napoleon III Telescope (University of Notre Dame)Historic 6-inch refractor gifted by Napoleon III to Notre Dame.Newall TelescopeOnce the world's largest refractor, now used for education.Sheepshanks equatorialA 6.7-inch refractor donated by Richard Sheepshanks, installed at Greenwich in 1838.Shuckburgh telescopeInfluential 4.1-inch equatorial refractor completed in 1791.Spotting scopeA compact portable telescope for high-magnification observation of distant objects.
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