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How do you think the Aztecs created such an accurate calendar without any telescopes?
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Which is the sugnificant advantage of space telescopes comapred with telescopes licated on Earth?
Light enters space telescope without distortion from Earth's atmosphere
An object that readily transmits light without distorting the images?
refracting telescopes
How did the Romans know what date it was without the calendar?
They Must have not, It must have just been somehow worked out into the Calendar that we have today.
What would life be without telescopes?
then we wont be able to see the planets and it would be hard to see the consolations.
Is the Hubble telescope better than a ground-based telescope?
yes, because it doesnt have the atmosphere in the way, the atmosphere distorts the images taken by ground based-telescopes because of the refraction of light. The hubbles telescope can provide clearer and more accurate images without this barrier in the way.
Do optical telescopes allow us to study the visibal light radiated from stars?
optical telescopes help scientist find out more about space and to look at the sun without the eyes burning!!
What reform of Caesar still affects us today?
Julian Calender, without it we wouldnt have 365 days divided into 12 months. But this idea was taken from a greek astronomer
Major optical telescopes are found in locations with....?
Fairly tall mountain peaks without major cities nearby.
How did Indian astronomers become experts of astronomy without telescopes?
They could tell by the moon and stars and saw a pattern.
Who first started the practice of adding days to the calendar?
The Romans "invented" the calendar as we know it. Without researching it, the first calendar with leap days, with the 12 months as we know the calendar, was the Julian calendar named after Julius Caesar. It had an error of about 3 days in 400 years. This calendar was replaced by the much more accurate Gregorian calendar by decree of Pope Gregory in the late 1600's in the Catholic countries and accepted by most Protestant and other countries in the 1700's. There was an adjustment of 12 or 13 days in the calendar at that time. The Gregorian calendar is the calendar we use today. Prior to the Julian calendar, days were added as needed in all calendars including the one which began in March and had only 10 months ! This is why the 12th month, December, comes from the Latin word for ten. The Mayan and Chinese calendars, among others, were known for their accuracy and would have had to add days also.
Why have no large refracting telescopes been built since 1900?
Refracting telescopes suffer from chromatic aberration, refracting telescopes have several surfaces to shape and polish, making large glass lenses without interior defects is very difficult, and large glass lenses are more difficult to support than large mirrors.
What are 2 reasons for sending telescopes into space?
Telescopes in space are able to view objects clearly without having to look through a thick layer of the Earth's atmosphere. This enables them to capture better pictures and observe dimmer and more distant objects.
