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Telescope list
List started by
gmackenz
for the Exoplanetology domain
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| William Herschel Telescope |
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The William Herschel Telescope or WHT was first conceived in the late 1960s, when the Anglo-Australian Observatory was being designed. The British astronomical community saw the need for telescopes of comparable power in the Northern Hemisphere....
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| Lovell Telescope |
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The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When it was constructed in the mid 1950s, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2...
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| Spitzer Space Telescope |
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The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF) is an infrared space observatory. It is the fourth and final of NASA's Great Observatories.
The planned nominal mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch...
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| Slooh | Structure |
Slooh is a robotic telescope service that can be viewed live through a web browser with Flash plug-in. Service is available to people who pay for membership and is currently the only live online observatory. Other online scopes traditionally email a...
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| Bradford Robotic Telescope | Structure | ||
| SuperWASP | Structure |
SuperWASP consists of two robotic observatories that operate continuously all year around, allowing it to cover both hemispheres of the sky. The first, SuperWASP-North is located on the island of La Palma amongst the Isaac Newton Group of...
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| Keck Interferometer | Structure |
The Keck Interferometer is a two-telescope astronomical interferometer. It forms part of NASA's overall effort to find planets and ultimately life beyond our solar system. It combines the light from the twin Keck telescope to measure the emission...
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| Hubble Space Telescope |
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST; also known colloquially as "the Hubble" or just "Hubble") is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in April 1990. It is named for the American astronomer Edwin Hubble. Although not the...
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| TEST | Structure |
The Tautenburg Exoplanet Search Telescope (TEST) is a robotic telescope system. The telescope uses a folded Schmidt Camera with a 300mm main mirror. The focal length is 940mm and it gives a 2.2 square degree field of view. Dome, mount, and CCD...
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