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Lippershey
Lippershey made up the first "spy-glass". And instantly patented it, realising there was an immense market for such a device especially for use at sea. Lippershey presented his spy-glass to Count Maurice of Nassau, who immediately ordered three more and ordered him to keep his methods secret. He saw is as a useful spying weapon in war and was used in war. -
Galileo First Telescope
Galileo made his first telescope in 1609, modeled after telescopes produced in other parts of Europe that could magnify objects three times. -
Newton
Newton had succeeded in making a mirror with a spherical curvature, slightly less than 1½ inches in diameter. The mirror was made of a copper-tin alloy, to which Newton had added a bit of arsenic to make it easier to polish. It had a magnification of about 40. Above this primary mirror Newton placed a small flat secondary mirror. -
Christopher Huygens
Since telescopes were beginning to get so long, it was difficult at the time to enclose them in a tube. Christopher Huygens had the idea of putting one lens on an upright pole, and using string to line up the second lens on the ground. This was the first telescope made without a tube enclosing the lenses that was 123 feet long. -
William Herchel
In 1789, William Herschel completed his largest telescope, a A 48-inch telescope. after efforts of about two years. On August 28, on the occasion of first light for this instrument, he discovered Saturn's sixth known moon Enceladus, and on September 17, its seventh known moon, Mimas. This telescope was world's largest telescope for over 50 years -
John William Draper
Draper designed the telescope that took the first picture of the moon. This revolutionized astronomy because different craters of the moon were revealed. -
Melbourne Reflector
In 1862, authorities in Victoria, Australia decided to build a large telescope to study the Southern nebulae — cloudy patches in the sky whose nature was still unknown. -
Reflector Telescopes By Default
Chromatic aberration had always been the refractor's most glaring defect. But even without its elimination, the images produced were still so sharp that astronomers were reluctant to abandon lenses in favor of mirror based light gathering instruments. -
Pocket made telescope.
French ivory and brass pocket telescope, unsigned, with a cardboard case and an auxiliary tinted lens cap, This was a pocket telescope. -
Hubble Telescope
In 1990, the Hubble telescope was sent out into space to circulate Earth. This telescope had the tools used to view visible, infrared and ultraviolet light, but they realized that the width of the lense had been made wrong, but fortuneately NASA designed it to have interchangeable parts. They sent a mission to replace the lens with a clear one. -
Voyager 1
The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722 kilogram space probe launched by NASA in 1977 to study the outer Solar System and interstellar medium. -
Chnadra X-rayt Observatory
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a space telescope launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Chandra is sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors -
Gemini Observatory
This is the first telescope in the world who's mirrors is controlled by computers. The lenght of the telescope is 3.5m. -
Spitzer Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003. It is the fourth and final of the NASA Great Observatories -
Galex
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer is an orbiting ultraviolet space telescope -
Dawn
Dawn is a robotic NASA spacecraft tasked with the exploration and study of Vesta and Ceres, the two largest members of the asteroid belt. Launched on September 27, 2007, the probe entered orbit around Vesta on July 16, 2011. -
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson was used from a donkey cart using a 60 inch mirror it was used to classify starts.The 60in Hale telescope is the largest.
