Telescopes
- Light collection: primary mirrors of
Hubble; Keck;
VLT
the future: E-ELT, GMT,
TMT
- Telescope power
(HST,
Keck,
VLT,
Gemini)
- angular resolution: diffraction limit --
Airy disks
the accursed atmosphere:
twinke twinkle
- Light detection: CCD for
(Hubble, Pan-STARRS, LSST)
- Field of view and LSST
- Invisible astronomy
- atmospheric transmission
and implications
- Radio (CARMA,
VLA,
Arecibo)
- Infrared (Spitzer,
Sofia,
James Webb Space Telescope [under construction])
- X-ray (Chandra,
XMM-Newton)
- gamma-ray (Fermi,
H.E.S.S., Veritas)
The Solar System
The Solar System: Introduction and Overview
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