Timeline of Astronomy and Telescopes

By 907617@isd624.org

  • The First Telescope

    The first telescope was invented by Hans Lippershey. He invented it for milatary use
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    Timeline of Astronomy and Telescopes

  • The first spyglass is invented

    Hans Lippershey built the first spyglass.

  • A telescope is used to dicover mountains and valleys on the moon

    In 1609, Galileo began using his telescope and looked at the
    Moon.

  • Bonaventura Cavalieri

    This book dicussed the theroy of parabolic mirrors and configurations of a refracting telescope.

  • Spiral Nebula are discovered

    Willam Parsons was the first person to see a nebula in detail after turning his telescope to M51. Over the next 5 years he found 14 more nebula.

  • The moon is Photographed for the first time through a telscope

    The photo was taken between 1847 and 1850 with the
    Harvard 15-inch refractor.

  • The cooke triplet

    H. Dennis Taylor invented this telescope. It consists of 3 different types of glass. Two are flint, and one is crown.

  • Largest refracting telescope

    It was built in the yorkes observatory and was 40 inches long. It used mirrors instead of lenses

  • Hubble space telescope

    Hubble was brought into space with the space shuttle Discovery in April of 1990. It has expanded our understanding of the universe. It has also had repairs to extend its life.