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| [[BTA-6]] || 6 m || 238″ ||[[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]]|| Worlds largest 1976 || [[Zelenchukskaya]], [[Caucasus]] || [[1976]] |
| [[BTA-6]] || 6 m || 238″ ||[[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]]|| Worlds largest 1976 || [[Zelenchukskaya]], [[Caucasus]] || [[1976]] |
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| [[Hale Telescope]] (200 inch) || 5.08 m || 200″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] || Worlds largest 1948 || [[Palomar Observatory]], [[California]] || [[1948]] |
| [[Hale Telescope]] (200 inch) || 5.08 m || 200″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] || Worlds largest 1948 || [[Palomar Observatory]], [[California]] || [[1948]] |
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| [[Samuel Oschin telescope]] || 1.22 m || 48″ || [[Schmidt camera|Schmidt]] || Worlds largest Schmidt camera 1948 || [[Palomar Observatory]]; California || 1948 |
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|[[Leviathan of Parsonstown]] || 1.83 m || 72″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Speculum metal|metal mirror]] || Worlds largest 1845 || [[Birr Castle]]; [[Ireland]] || 1845 |
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⚫ | | [[40-foot telescope|Herschel 40-foot]] (126 cm d.)<ref name="ssplprint">{{cite web | url=http://www.ssplprints.com/image.php?imgref=10408672 | title=Original mirror for William Herschel's 40 foot telescope, 1785 | publisher=Science & Society Picture Library | accessdate=22 November 2008}}</ref> || 1.26 m || 49.5″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Speculum metal|metal mirror]] || Worlds largest 1789 || [[Observatory House]]; [[England]] || 1789-1815 |
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| Plaskett telescope <ref> http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/public/18_e.html </ref> || 1.83 m || 72″ || Single || designed as worlds largest but beat by [[Mount Wilson Observatory#100 inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope|Hooker 100-Inch]] || [[Dominion Astrophysical Observatory]], Canada || 1918 |
| Plaskett telescope <ref> http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/public/18_e.html </ref> || 1.83 m || 72″ || Single || designed as worlds largest but beat by [[Mount Wilson Observatory#100 inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope|Hooker 100-Inch]] || [[Dominion Astrophysical Observatory]], Canada || 1918 |
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| [[Mount Wilson Observatory|Hooker 100-Inch Telescope]] || 2.54 m|| 100″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] || Worlds largest 1917 || [[Mt. Wilson Observatory]]; [[California]] || [[1917]] |
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| AZT-33<ref>http:http://en.iszf.irk.ru/Sayan_Solar_Observatoryl</ref> || 1.6 m || 63″ || Single || || [[Sayan Solar Observatory]] || 1981 |
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⚫ | | Harvard 60-inch Reflector <ref> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE3DC143AE733A25755C0A9629C946497D6CF New York Times "NEW HARVARD TELESCOPE.; Sixty-Inch Reflector, Biggest in the World, Being Set Up. "April 6, 1905, Thursday Page 9 </ref> || 1.524 m || 60″ || Single || [[United States|USA]] || [[Harvard College Observatory]], USA || [[1905]]-[[1931]] |
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| [[Mount Wilson Observatory|Hale 60-Inch Telescope]] || 1.524 m|| 60″ || Single || [[United States|USA]] || [[Mt. Wilson Observatory]]; [[California]] || [[1908]] |
| [[Mount Wilson Observatory|Hale 60-Inch Telescope]] || 1.524 m|| 60″ || Single || [[United States|USA]] || [[Mt. Wilson Observatory]]; [[California]] || [[1908]] |
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⚫ | | Harvard 60-inch Reflector <ref> http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE3DC143AE733A25755C0A9629C946497D6CF New York Times "NEW HARVARD TELESCOPE.; Sixty-Inch Reflector, Biggest in the World, Being Set Up. "April 6, 1905, Thursday Page 9 </ref> || 1.524 m || 60″ || Single || [[United States|USA]] || [[Harvard College Observatory]], USA || [[1905]]-[[1931]] |
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| [[40-foot telescope|Herschel 40-foot]](126 cm d.)<ref name="ssplprint">{{cite web | url=http://www.ssplprints.com/image.php?imgref=10408672 | title=Original mirror for William Herschel's 40 foot telescope, 1785 | publisher=Science & Society Picture Library | accessdate=22 November 2008}}</ref> || 1.26 m || 49.5″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] + [[Ireland]] || [[Observatory House]]; [[England]] || 1789-1815 |
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| Galileo 122 cm <ref> http://www.pd.astro.it/asiago/7000/7200/7200.html </ref>|| 1.22 m || 48″|| Single || Italy || [[Asiago Observatory]], Italy || 1942 |
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| [[Samuel Oschin telescope]] || 1.22 m || 48″ || [[Schmidt camera|Schmidt]] || USA || [[Palomar Observatory]]; California || 1948 |
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| [[Great Melbourne Telescope]]<ref> http://stjarnhimlen.se/bigtel/LargestTelescope.html </ref> || 1.22 m || 48″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Melbourne Observatory]], Australia || 1878-1889 |
| [[Great Melbourne Telescope]]<ref> http://stjarnhimlen.se/bigtel/LargestTelescope.html </ref> || 1.22 m || 48″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Melbourne Observatory]], Australia || 1878-1889 |
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| George Ritchey 40-inch (1 m)<ref> http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=17931 </ref> || 102 cm || 40″ || [[Ritchey-Chrétien|R/C]] || USA || [[Flagstaff Station|Flagstaff]], Arizona (Washington, D.C. until 1955)|| 1934 |
| George Ritchey 40-inch (1 m)<ref> http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=17931 </ref> || 102 cm || 40″ || [[Ritchey-Chrétien|R/C]] || USA || [[Flagstaff Station|Flagstaff]], Arizona (Washington, D.C. until 1955)|| 1934 |
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| ''Zeiss di Merate'' (1m reflector) || 100 cm || 39.4″ || Single ||[[Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)|Kingdom of Italy]] || [[Merate Astronomical Observatory|Merate Obs.]], [[Merate]], [[Italy]] || 1926 |
| ''Zeiss di Merate'' (1m reflector) || 100 cm || 39.4″ || Single ||[[Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)|Kingdom of Italy]] || [[Merate Astronomical Observatory|Merate Obs.]], [[Merate]], [[Italy]] || 1926 |
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| Hamburg ''Spiegelteleskop'' (1m reflector)<ref>http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/EN/Oef/Stw/1mspiegel/1mspiegel.html </ref><ref> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1935Obs....58..208. </ref>|| 100 cm || 39.4″ || Single || [[Deutsches Reich]] (Germany) ||[[Hamburg Observatory|Hamburg-Bergdorf Obs.]], Germany || 1911 |
| Hamburg ''Spiegelteleskop'' (1m reflector)<ref>http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/EN/Oef/Stw/1mspiegel/1mspiegel.html </ref><ref> http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1935Obs....58..208. </ref>|| 100 cm || 39.4″ || Single || [[Deutsches Reich]] (Germany) ||[[Hamburg Observatory|Hamburg-Bergdorf Obs.]], Germany || 1911 |
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| [[Yerkes Observatory]] || 102 cm || 40″ || refractor || largest operational refractor || [[Lick Observatory]], USA || 1897 |
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| [[Crossley telescope|Crossley Reflector]] <ref> http://www.ucolick.org/public/telescopes/crossley.html </ref> || 91.4 cm || 36″ || Single || |
| [[Crossley telescope|Crossley Reflector]] <ref> http://www.ucolick.org/public/telescopes/crossley.html </ref> || 91.4 cm || 36″ || Single || First large photographic telescope || [[Lick Observatory]], USA || 1896 |
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| A.A. Common Reflector || 91.4 cm || 36″ || Single || Great Britain || Great Britain || 1880-1896 |
| A.A. Common Reflector || 91.4 cm || 36″ || Single || Great Britain || Great Britain || 1880-1896 |
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| William Lassell 48-inch <ref> http://www.mikeoates.org/lassell/lassell_by_a_chapman.htm </ref>|| 1.22 m || 48″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Malta]] || 1861-1865 |
| William Lassell 48-inch <ref> http://www.mikeoates.org/lassell/lassell_by_a_chapman.htm </ref>|| 1.22 m || 48″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Malta]] || 1861-1865 |
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|[[Leviathan of Parsonstown]] || 1.83 m || 72″ || [[ |
|[[Leviathan of Parsonstown]] || 1.83 m || 72″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Speculum metal|metal mirror]] || Worlds largest 1845 || [[Birr Castle]]; [[Ireland]] || 1845 |
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| William Lassell 24-inch <ref> http://www.mikeoates.org/lassell/telescope.htm </ref> || 61 cm || 24″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Liverpool]], [[England]]|| 1845 |
| William Lassell 24-inch <ref> http://www.mikeoates.org/lassell/telescope.htm </ref> || 61 cm || 24″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Liverpool]], [[England]]|| 1845 |
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| Rosse 36-inch Telescope || 91.4 cm || 36″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Birr Castle]]; [[Ireland]] ||1826 |
| Rosse 36-inch Telescope || 91.4 cm || 36″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Birr Castle]]; [[Ireland]] ||1826 |
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| Herschel 20-foot (47.5 cm d.) <ref> http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/E/Xtra/Bios/wherschel.html </ref><ref> http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal111/universe/etu_a_herschel.htm </ref>|| 47.5 cm || 18.5″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Observatory House]]; [[England]]|| 1782 |
| Herschel 20-foot (47.5 cm d.) <ref> http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/E/Xtra/Bios/wherschel.html </ref><ref> http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal111/universe/etu_a_herschel.htm </ref>|| 47.5 cm || 18.5″ || [[Speculum metal|Metal]] || [[Great Britain]] || [[Observatory House]]; [[England]]|| 1782 |
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| Rev John Michell's Gregorian reflector<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=KAWwzHlDVksC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Father+Noel+telescope&source=bl&ots=0GQUbfITZ-&sig=oFKUzJw4qCkPt8P4s-A_VQZd2XU&hl=en&ei=xrjmSYjwG5vFtgfk45XwBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2 Henry C. King, '''The History of the Telescope''' - page 91]</ref> || 75 cm || 29.5″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Gregorian telescope|Gregorian]] || Worlds largest 1780 || [[Yorkshire]], [[Great Britain]] || 1780-1789 |
| Rev John Michell's Gregorian reflector<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=KAWwzHlDVksC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=Father+Noel+telescope&source=bl&ots=0GQUbfITZ-&sig=oFKUzJw4qCkPt8P4s-A_VQZd2XU&hl=en&ei=xrjmSYjwG5vFtgfk45XwBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2 Henry C. King, '''The History of the Telescope''' - page 91]</ref> || 75 cm || 29.5″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Gregorian telescope|Gregorian]] || Worlds largest 1780 || [[Yorkshire]], [[Great Britain]] || 1780-1789 |
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| James Short's Gregorian reflector || 38 cm || 14″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Gregorian telescope|Gregorian]] || Worlds largest 1734 || [[Scotland]] || 1734 |
| James Short's Gregorian reflector || 38 cm || 14″ || [[Reflecting telescope|Reflector]] - [[Gregorian telescope|Gregorian]] || Worlds largest 1734 || [[Scotland]] || 1734 |
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| Christiaan Huygens 210 foot refractor || 22 cm || 8.5" || [[Refracting telescope|Refractor]] - [[Aerial telescope]] || Worlds largest 1686 || [[Netherlands]] || 1686 |
| Christiaan Huygens 210 foot refractor || 22 cm || 8.5" || [[Refracting telescope|Refractor]] - [[Aerial telescope]] || Worlds largest 1686 || [[Netherlands]] || 1686 |
Revision as of 02:37, 10 August 2009
Table of optical telescope progression historically
Chronological list of optical telescopes by historical significance, not overall size.
Name | Aperture m |
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Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) | 8.4 m(2) or 11.8 m |
464.5″ | Reflector - Binocular, 2 | Largest in the world | Mount Graham International Observatory, Arizona | 2007 |
Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) | 10.4 m | 410″ | Reflector - Segmented,36 | Worlds largest 2006 | ORM, Canary Islands, Spain | 2006 |
Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) | ~10 m | ~400″ | Reflector - Segmented,91 | Worlds largest 2005 | Sutherland, Northern Cape | 2005 |
Keck 1 | 10 m | 400″ | Reflector - Segmented,36 | Worlds largest 1993 | Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii | 1993 |
BTA-6 | 6 m | 238″ | Reflector | Worlds largest 1976 | Zelenchukskaya, Caucasus | 1976 |
McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope | 1.61 m | 63″ | Single | Largest solar telescope | Kitt Peak National Obs., USA | 1962 |
Hale Telescope (200 inch) | 5.08 m | 200″ | Reflector | Worlds largest 1948 | Palomar Observatory, California | 1948 |
Samuel Oschin telescope | 1.22 m | 48″ | Schmidt | Worlds largest Schmidt camera 1948 | Palomar Observatory; California | 1948 |
69-inch Perkins Telescope[1] | 1.75 m | 69″ | Single | USA | Perkins Observatory, Ohio | 1931-1964 |
Plaskett telescope [2] | 1.83 m | 72″ | Single | designed as worlds largest but beat by Hooker 100-Inch | Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Canada | 1918 |
Hooker 100-Inch Telescope | 2.54 m | 100″ | Reflector | Worlds largest 1917 | Mt. Wilson Observatory; California | 1917 |
Hale 60-Inch Telescope | 1.524 m | 60″ | Single | USA | Mt. Wilson Observatory; California | 1908 |
Harvard 60-inch Reflector [3] | 1.524 m | 60″ | Single | USA | Harvard College Observatory, USA | 1905-1931 |
Great Melbourne Telescope[4] | 1.22 m | 48″ | Metal | Great Britain | Melbourne Observatory, Australia | 1878-1889 |
George Ritchey 40-inch (1 m)[5] | 102 cm | 40″ | R/C | USA | Flagstaff, Arizona (Washington, D.C. until 1955) | 1934 |
Zeiss di Merate (1m reflector) | 100 cm | 39.4″ | Single | Kingdom of Italy | Merate Obs., Merate, Italy | 1926 |
Zeiss 1m reflector | 100 cm | 39.4″ | Single | Belgium | Royal Obs., Uccle, Belgium | |
Hamburg Spiegelteleskop (1m reflector)[6][7] | 100 cm | 39.4″ | Single | Deutsches Reich (Germany) | Hamburg-Bergdorf Obs., Germany | 1911 |
Yerkes Observatory | 102 cm | 40″ | refractor | largest operational refractor | Lick Observatory, USA | 1897 |
Crossley Reflector [8] | 91.4 cm | 36″ | Single | First large photographic telescope | Lick Observatory, USA | 1896 |
A.A. Common Reflector | 91.4 cm | 36″ | Single | Great Britain | Great Britain | 1880-1896 |
William Lassell 48-inch [9] | 1.22 m | 48″ | Metal | Great Britain | Malta | 1861-1865 |
Leviathan of Parsonstown | 1.83 m | 72″ | Reflector - metal mirror | Worlds largest 1845 | Birr Castle; Ireland | 1845 |
William Lassell 24-inch [10] | 61 cm | 24″ | Metal | Great Britain | Liverpool, England | 1845 |
Rosse 36-inch Telescope | 91.4 cm | 36″ | Metal | Great Britain | Birr Castle; Ireland | 1826 |
Herschel 40-foot (126 cm d.)[11] | 1.26 m | 49.5″ | Reflector - metal mirror | Worlds largest 1789 | Observatory House; England | 1789-1815 |
Herschel 20-foot (47.5 cm d.) [12][13] | 47.5 cm | 18.5″ | Metal | Great Britain | Observatory House; England | 1782 |
Rev John Michell's Gregorian reflector[14] | 75 cm | 29.5″ | Reflector - Gregorian | Worlds largest 1780 | Yorkshire, Great Britain | 1780-1789 |
Father Noel's Gregorian reflector[15] | 60 cm | 23.5″ | Reflector - Gregorian | Worlds largest 1761 | Paris, France | 1761 |
James Short's Gregorian reflector | 50 cm | 19.5" | Reflector - Gregorian | Worlds largest 1750 | Scotland | 1750 |
James Short's Gregorian reflector | 38 cm | 14″ | Reflector - Gregorian | Worlds largest 1734 | Scotland | 1734 |
Hadley's Reflector [16] | 15 cm | 6″ | Metal | First parabolic newtonian | England (mobile) | 1721 |
Christiaan Huygens 210 foot refractor | 22 cm | 8.5" | Refractor - Aerial telescope | Worlds largest 1686 | Netherlands | 1686 |
Christiaan Huygens 170 foot refractor | 20 cm | 8" | Refractor - Aerial telescope | Worlds largest 1689 | Netherlands | 1686 |
Christiaan Huygens 210 foot refractor | 19 cm | 7.5" | Refractor - Aerial telescope | Worlds largest 1686 | Netherlands | 1686 |
Hooke's reflector[17] | 18 cm | 7″ | Reflector | Worlds largest 16?? | Great Britain | 16?? |
Newton's Reflector[18] [19] | 3.3 cm | 1.3″ | Metal | First reflecting telescope | England (mobile) | 1669 |
Hevelius refractor | 12 cm | 4.7″ | Refractor | Worlds largest 1645 | Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland | 1645 |
Hevelius Scheiner's helioscope | 6 cm | 2.3″ | Refractor | Worlds largest 1638 | Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland | 1638 |
Galileo's 1620 telescope | 3.8 cm[20] | 1.5″ | Refractor | Worlds largest 1638 | Italy | 1638 |
Galileo's 1612 telescope | 2.6 cm[21] | 1″ | Refractor | Worlds largest 1612 | Italy | 1612 |
Galileo's 1609 telescope | 1.5 cm[22] | .62″ | Refractor | Worlds largest 1609 | Italy | 1609 |
Hans Lippershey's telescope | ? cm | .?″ | Refractor | Worlds first recorded telescope | Netherlands | 1608 |
- ^ http://www.perkins-observatory.org/history.html
- ^ http://www.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/public/18_e.html
- ^ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A0CE3DC143AE733A25755C0A9629C946497D6CF New York Times "NEW HARVARD TELESCOPE.; Sixty-Inch Reflector, Biggest in the World, Being Set Up. "April 6, 1905, Thursday Page 9
- ^ http://stjarnhimlen.se/bigtel/LargestTelescope.html
- ^ http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=17931
- ^ http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/EN/Oef/Stw/1mspiegel/1mspiegel.html
- ^ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1935Obs....58..208.
- ^ http://www.ucolick.org/public/telescopes/crossley.html
- ^ http://www.mikeoates.org/lassell/lassell_by_a_chapman.htm
- ^ http://www.mikeoates.org/lassell/telescope.htm
- ^ "Original mirror for William Herschel's 40 foot telescope, 1785". Science & Society Picture Library. Retrieved 22 November 2008.
- ^ http://www.maa.clell.de/Messier/E/Xtra/Bios/wherschel.html
- ^ http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal111/universe/etu_a_herschel.htm
- ^ Henry C. King, The History of the Telescope - page 91
- ^ Henry C. King, The History of the Telescope - page 91
- ^ http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations//groundup/lesson/scopes/hadley/index.php
- ^ Henry C. King, The History of the Telescope - page 77
- ^ http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/groundup/lesson/scopes/newton/index.php
- ^ Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Physics, Telescopes in History, Peter Bond
- ^ Note: Diameter of cardboard objective stop Dupré, S, Galileo's telescope and celestial light, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Journal for the History of Astronomy (ISSN 0021-8286), Vol. 34, Part 4, No. 117, p. 369 - 399 (2003)
- ^ Note: Diameter of cardboard objective stop Dupré, S, Galileo's telescope and celestial light, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Journal for the History of Astronomy (ISSN 0021-8286), Vol. 34, Part 4, No. 117, p. 369 - 399 (2003)
- ^ Note: Diameter of cardboard objective stop Dupré, S, Galileo's telescope and celestial light, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Journal for the History of Astronomy (ISSN 0021-8286), Vol. 34, Part 4, No. 117, p. 369 - 399 (2003)