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optical telescope
subject			fact

optical telescope	has optical design
	has reference astroweb
	is a kind of electromagnetic telescope
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has aperture
	has focal ratio
	has operator
	has purpose observe celestial objects
	has location
artifact	has creator
	has creation date
	has owner
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has temperature
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

Kinds of optical telescope :

• 2.3-meter Telescope (15 facts) (Vainu Bappu 2.3 m)
• 3.5-meter Telescope (15 facts)
• Anglo-Australian Telescope (15 facts) (AAT)
• Astrophysical Research Consortium Telescope (14 facts) (ARC 3.5 m)
• Bol'shoi Teleskop Azimutal'nyi (16 facts) (6 m)
• Byurakan 2.6-meter Reflector (13 facts) (Byurakan 102 inch)
• C. Donald Shane Telescope (15 facts) (120 inch)
• Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (15 facts) (CFHT)
• ESO 3.6-meter Telescope (15 facts) (ESO 3.6 m)
• Gemini Telescope North (12 facts)
• Gemini Telescope South (12 facts)
• George Ellery Hale Telescope (17 facts) (200 inch)
• Gran Telescopio Canarias (14 facts) (GTC)
• Harlan J. Smith Telescope (16 facts) (107 inch)
• Hiltner Telescope (17 facts) (Hiltner 2.3 m)
• Hobby-Eberly Telescope (16 facts)
• Hooker Telescope (16 facts) (100 inch)
• Hubble Space Telescope (23 facts) (HST, HST) - Hubble Space Telescope. A space-based reflecting telescope with a primary mirror diameter of 2.4 m (94 in) capable of high-resolution imaging from the far ultraviolet to the near infrared. A joint NASA/ESA mission. Launched in 1990 with a planned lifetime of 15 years. Encountered reduced performance when the mirror was found to have spherical aberration. Solved by the installation of corrective optics (COSTAR) in 1994.
• Irénée du Pont Telescope (29 facts) (du Pont 100 inch)
• Isaac Newton Telescope (16 facts) (Isaac Newton 98 inch)
• Keck (2 kinds, 27 facts)
• Large Binocular Telescope (15 facts) (LBT)
• Magellan Project (17 facts) (Magellan I)
• MMT Telescope (15 facts)
• Mount Stromlo 2.3-meter (14 facts)
• NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (16 facts) (NASA IRTF)
• New Technology Telescope (15 facts) (NTT)
• Nicholas U. Mayall Reflector (15 facts) (Kitt Peak 4 m)
• Nordic Optical Telescope (15 facts) (NOT)
• optical space telescope (1 kind, 26 facts)
• reflector with corrector plate (3 facts)
• refractor (12 kinds, 163 facts) - A telescope in which the light is focused by a lens at the viewing side of the telescope. By contrast, a reflecting telescope is one in which light is focused by a mirror., Telescope that uses lenses to magnify and focus an image onto an eyepiece. (refractor), A device for gathering and amplifying light by means of a lens.
• Shajn 2.6-m Reflector (11 facts) (Crimean 102 inch)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey Telescope (14 facts) (Sloan 2.5 m, SDSS)
• Southern African Large Telescope (15 facts) (SALT)
• Subaru Telescope (14 facts) (Subaru)
• Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (14 facts) (Galileo)
• UBC-Laval Telescope (17 facts) (LMT)
• United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (17 facts) (UKIRT)
• Very Large Telescope (20 facts) (VLT)
• Victor M. Blanco Telescope (15 facts) (CTIO 4 meter)
• William Herschel Telescope (16 facts) (WHT)
• Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO Telescope (16 facts) (WIYN 3.5 m)

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