How Telescopes Work

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This guide describes how telescopes work. Telescopes are the fundamental tool in observational astronomy, and understanding their capabilities and limitations is central to understanding what we can learn from them. 

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In this Chapter

  1. Refracting Telescopes
  2. Radio Telescopes
  3. Spectroscopy
  4. Image Quality and Calibration
  5. Reflecting Telescopes
  6. Introduction to Photometry
  7. Robotic Telescopes
  8. Telescope Mounts
  9. Photography Revolutionizes Observations
  10. Robotic Telescope Networks
  11. Space Telescopes
  12. CCDs

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