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page 1Telescopes

telescope
thumb|The 100-inch (2.54 m) Hooker reflecting telescope at [[Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles, used by Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy redshifts and discover the general expansion of the universe.]]
eyepiece
thumb|right|250px|A collection of different types of eyepieces.
adaptive optics
Technique used to improve performance of optical systems by compensating for distortions
optical telescope
telescope which is used to focus light from the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum
zoom lens
camera lens with a variable focal length
Subaru Telescope
Japanese telescope and observatory

astrograph
thumb|150px|A , f/5.3 astrograph at Lowell Observatory (a refractor with a 3 element [[Cooke triplet lens) used in the discovery of Pluto.]]
thumb|150px|A double astrograph consisting of two astrographs and a central guide scope on display at Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl observatory.
thumb|The Bruce double astrograph at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl observatory.
thumbnail|This is a modern amateur Newtonian telescope|Newtonian astrograph, specifically designed for astrophotography.
altazimuth mount
two-axis mount for supporting and rotating an instrument such as a telescope about two perpendicular axes – one vertical and the other horizontal
first light
first use of a new instrument to take an astronomical image after it has been constructed
meridian circle
Astronomical instrument for timing of the passage of stars
active optics
shaping technology for reflecting telescopes
equatorial mount
mounting system for camera or telescope
Thirty Meter Telescope
future observatory in the United States
Hale Telescope
telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, US
HATNet Project
network of 6 small automated telescopes, aiming to find and explore extrasolar planets and variable stars, maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment
long-term variability sky survey
history of the telescope
aspect of history
Automated Planet Finder
automated telescope searching exoplanets currently under construction
liquid mirror telescope
telescope with mirror made of a reflective liquid
Next-Generation Transit Survey
ground-based robotic search for exoplanets
diffraction-limited system
optical system with resolution performance at the instrument's theoretical limit
dioptrics
Dioptrics is the branch of optics dealing with refraction, especially by lenses. In contrast, the branch dealing with mirrors is known as catoptrics. Telescopes that create their image with an objective that is a convex lens (refractors) are said to be "dioptric" telescopes.
GoTo
type of telescope mount and related software
telescope mount
mechanical structure which supports a telescope
Greenland Telescope
radio telescope located in Greenland
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument
instrument for conducting a spectrographic survey of distant galaxies
Bahtinov mask
telescope focusing device
comet seeker
early telescope

Vacuum Tower Telescope
evacuated-optics solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands
Foucault knife-edge test
optical test for curved mirrors
XO Telescope
astronomical telescope on the summit of Haleakala in Maui, Hawaii
secondary mirror
secondary deflecting or focusing mirror in a reflecting telescope
Schmidt corrector plate
corrective lens used in Schmidt and Schmidt–Cassegrain telescopes
Intensity interferometer
Astronomy device
Las Cumbres Observatory
nonprofit organization and astronomical observatory
SkyMapper
Otto Struve Telescope
Telescope
Polar alignment
method of orienting telescopes and other celestial observation devices
setting circles
astronomy device for a telescope
Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network
network of six solar helioseismology observatories
Hexapod-Telescope
The Hexapod-Telescope (HPT) was a Ritchey-Chrétien optical telescope, that operated in 2006-2017 in the Cerro Armazones Observatory (OCA) in northern Chile, and is currently decommissioned.