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Telescopes & Light

The Powers of a Telescope Light Gathering Power: Astronomers prefer *large* telescopes. A large telescope can intercept and focus more starlight than does a small telescope. A larger telescope will produce brighter images and will be able to detect fainter objects. Resolving Power: A large telescope also increases the sharpness of the image and the extent to which fine details can be distinguished. Magnification: The magnifying power is the ability of the telescope to make the image appear large in the field of view.

Light-Gathering Power: Size Does Matter Light-Gathering Power: Depends on the surface area (A) of the primary lens and is proportional to the telescopes diameter. D

The Powers of a Telescope Resolving Power: Wave nature of light: The telescope aperture produces fringe rings that set a limit to the resolution of the telescope.

The Powers of a Telescope Magnifying Power The ability of the telescope to make the object’s optical image appear bigger while being observed A larger magnification does not improve the resolving power of the telescope!

Types of Telescopes Refracting Telescopes: Use lenses as the optics to focus and bend light. Galileo used a refracting telescope. The human-eye is partly a refracting telescope.

Refracting Telescope Objective Lens Eyepiece Lens Focal Length Objective Focal Length of Eyepiece Refracting Telescope: Lens focuses light onto the focal plane Focal length

Disadvantages Refracting telescopes suffer from Chromatic Aberration. As light passes through a lens, just as a prism will disperse light, the lens will focus bluer wavelengths differently than the redder wavelengths. Blue Focus Red Focus

Disadvantages Cannot be made very large for a multitude of reasons. Get to be very expensive to maintain. Lenses can grow “cloudy” over time. Lenses can distort over time.

140-ft Hevelius telescope 1673

Most modern telescopes are reflecting telescopes. Types of Telescopes Reflecting Telescopes: Use mirrors as the optics to focus and bounce light. The rear view mirror on your car is a simple reflecting telescope. Reflecting Telescope: Concave Mirror focuses light onto the focal plane Focal length Most modern telescopes are reflecting telescopes.

Reflecting Telescope

Advantages Reflecting telescopes do not suffer from Chromatic Aberration. All wavelengths will reflect off the mirror in the same way. Reflecting telescopes can be made very large because the mirrored surfaces have plenty of support. Thus, reflecting telescopes can greatly increase in light gathering and resolving power. Reflecting telescopes are often cheaper ($$$) to make than similarly sized refracting telescopes.

Newton’s Telescope: The first reflecting telescope

Hey! Where are you going? The Doppler Effect The wavelength of light is effected by the relative motion between the source and the observer. Christian Doppler (1803-1853), a professor of mathematics in Prague, pointed out in 1842 that the observed wavelength of light is affected by motion. The frequency increases when the source and observer are approaching each other, and decreases when they are moving away from each other.

The Doppler Effect Observer Stationary Towards Blueshift Away Redshift

Observer Observer

How does this help? Star moving towards from us Stationary Star Star moving away from us Strength of the Light with this Wavelength Wavelength

Telescopes

Where to put a Telescope? Far away from civilization – to avoid light pollution

Where to put a Telescope? On high mountain-tops – to avoid atmospheric turbulence and other weather effects

On high mountain-tops – to avoid atmospheric turbulence and other weather effects

“Seeing” Weather conditions and turbulence in the atmosphere set further limits to the quality of astronomical images. Bad seeing Good seeing

Hubble Space Telescope

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory X-Ray Astronomy X-rays are completely absorbed in the atmosphere. X-ray astronomy has to be done from satellites. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory Gamma-Ray Astronomy Gamma-rays: most energetic electromagnetic radiation; traces the most violent processes in the Universe The Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory

Radio Astronomy

Radio Interferometry

Radio Interferometry The Very Large Array (VLA): 27 dishes are combined to simulate a large dish of 36 km in diameter. Even larger arrays consist of dishes spread out over the entire U.S. (VLBA = Very Long Baseline Array) or even the whole Earth (VLBI = Very Long Baseline Interferometry)!