Time Line of Telescopes

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  • Galileo's telescope

    Galileo's telescope
    Galileo created a telescope that had a 1 and a half inch lens displayed in an omnate frame.This was place in wood tubes.

  • Johannes Hevelius

    Johannes Hevelius
    He created a refracting telescope that was 150 feet long, hung by ropes on a pole in Danzig. It was a refracting telescope.

  • Hevelius Refracting Telescope

    This telescope created by Hevelius was 150 feet long. It hung by ropes on a pole.

  • Huygen's Refractery

    Huygen's Refractery
    This was a major improvement of Hevelius's refracting telescope. He changed the eye peice on the telescope.

  • Sir William Herschel

    Sir William Herschel
    Discovered the planet Uranis with a hand reflecting telescope. Was not very effective because it was so big.

  • John William Draper produced first photograph of the moon

    John William Draper produced first photograph of the moon
    Used daguerreotype process to recieve the image.

  • Leviathan of Parsonston

    Leviathan of Parsonston
    This reflecting telescope was designed by Lord Rosse in Irland. It allowed him to discover the first nebulae.

  • Harvord Refractor

    Harvord Refractor
    Descoverd a comet in the sky to research. Also, it was the largest and best telescope for 20 years in a row.

  • Venus

    Venus
    The Navel Observitory studyed Venus very closely. They sent 8 projects to orbit Venus and get pictures.

  • Yerkes Observitory

    Yerkes Observitory
    40 inch reflector. It is the largest achromatic telescope ever buit.

  • Snow Solar Telescope

    Snow Solar Telescope
    The spectrohelograph was 10 feet and had a mirror of 2 feet. It was used to get a pitcure of one wave length of the sun by the use of a reflector.

  • Ritchey

    Ritchey
    The telescope he created/ enhanced was used to gather light to one focal point, It had silver coated glass mirrors.

  • Hooker

    Hooker
    The Hooker telescope has a 100 inch reflector. It is also the largest telescope ever built.

  • Hale Telescope

    Hale Telescope
    The Hale telescope is 200 inches. It was the worlds most effective telescope for 45 years but now is not. This telescope is located in California.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope
    The Hubble Telescope orbits the Earth. It is now being shut down because there is no funding.It has beamed thousands of images back to Earth.

  • Large Binocular Telescope

    Large Binocular Telescope
    This telescope is located on Mt. Graham in Arizona. This telescope is the worlds most advanced telescope. It has 8.4 m mirrors.