Telescope 140915062428 Phpapp01
Telescope 140915062428 Phpapp01
Telescope 140915062428 Phpapp01
04/15/2024
Outline
1. Types of Telescope
2. Telescope aberration
3. Use of Telescope
4. Angular Resolution
5. Advanced optical Telescopes
1. Types of Telescope
Refracting Reflecting
Telescope Telescope
Refracting Telescope
a. Objective lens
b. Eye piece
c. Focal length of objective lens
Reflecting Telescope
a. Eye piece
b. Prime focus
c. Primary mirror
2. Telescope Aberration
Refracting Telescope Reflecting Telescope
• Chromatic aberration. A • Spherical Aberration. An
lens bends blue light waves improperly curved mirror
the most and bring them to does not reflect light waves
a focus closer to the lens to a single focus.
than red light waves.
Telescope Aberration Solution
Refracting Telescope Reflecting Telescope
• Achromatic lens (double lens) • Parabolic Mirror instead of
instead of a single lens. Spherical Mirror.
Biconvex lens
f=focal length
r=radius of lens
a=radius of curvature
t=thickness of lens
n=refractive index of
lens
lensmaker’s equation
white light
Achromatic Doublet
f=focal length
r=radius of lens
a=radius of curvature
t=thickness of lens
n=refractive index of
lens
The calculation shows that focal length is now depends on the term .
We can choose a value of a=393.6 mm, to give the same focal length for green-
yellow light as for the biconvex lens.
Color Wavelength
Blue 0.409 962.3 mm
Green-Yellow 0.407 967.0 mm
Red 0.408 964.6 mm
Parabolic mirror
• Assuming that our eye can see a star of 6.5 magnitude, then with a
150 mm telescope we could be able to see a star of 6.5+6.65=13.15
magnitude. This is called the limiting magnitude for that telescope.
Image of Andromeda Galaxy
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5. Advanced optical telescopes
Cassegrain
Telescope
Catadioptric
Telescope
Schmidt
Camera
Cassegrain Telescope
• Majority of professional telescope are of this
design including the Hubble Space telescope.
• Secondary mirror is hyperboloid which reflects
light down through a central hole through the
primary mirror to focal plane.
• Heavy equipments such as spectrometer can
be placed.
Catadioptric Telescope
• Combination of mirror and lens to produce
image.
• Spherical mirrors are used to produce the
image.
• To avoid spherical aberration a lens is used
normally called a “corrector lens”.
Schmidt Camera
• It was invented in 1930 by Bernhard Schmidt.
• Spherical mirror was used as primary, and to
avoid spherical aberration a corrector plate was
placed at the radius of curvature.
• Ideal to photograph large star fields in the
Milky Way, showing 10,000 stars on one
negative.
• Highly valuable sky surveys have been done
using such cameras.
The Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope
ISPA Telescope
• Refracting Telescope
• Main lens: 225 mm
• Eye Piece: 60 mm to 2.5 mm
• How fainter can we see