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disadvantages:Refractor telescopes suffer from chromatic aberration, a color distortion that produces a rainbow of colors around an image. Chromatic Aberration can ruin an images appearance. The glass lens is easily broken. Often, the glass lens in a refractor telescope is not perfect and as a result of this imperfection, large refractor telescopes (over 40 inches) do not work properly.
Galileo is the first recorded builder of the refracting telescope that I have been able to find. His doing so very nearly cost him his life as the church ruled science of the day and they felt his ideas were a real problem. He is reported to have spent the last 8 or 9 years of his life under 'house arrest'. -R. Edwards-Futurist
Galileo didn't actually invent the telescope, though he was one of the first to use it for astronomical observations. At the time he constructed his first telescopes, he was teaching at the University of Padua in Italy.
"Space" is actually a pretty boring thing to examine, since there's nothing there. What you probably want is to examine things in space, and what kind of telescope is "best" depends on exactly what those things are.I've added a link to a website intended for newcomers to the hobby that details the sorts of tradeoffs in the various types of (optical) telescopes so that you can choose one that works for what you're interested in looking at.
He didn't he improved the existing telescope and turned it to astronomical use around 1609
disadvantages:Refractor telescopes suffer from chromatic aberration, a color distortion that produces a rainbow of colors around an image. Chromatic Aberration can ruin an images appearance. The glass lens is easily broken. Often, the glass lens in a refractor telescope is not perfect and as a result of this imperfection, large refractor telescopes (over 40 inches) do not work properly.
Galileo is the first recorded builder of the refracting telescope that I have been able to find. His doing so very nearly cost him his life as the church ruled science of the day and they felt his ideas were a real problem. He is reported to have spent the last 8 or 9 years of his life under 'house arrest'. -R. Edwards-Futurist
Galileo didn't actually invent the telescope, though he was one of the first to use it for astronomical observations. At the time he constructed his first telescopes, he was teaching at the University of Padua in Italy.
The telescope in orbit around the earth as of 2010 is the Hubble Telescope.
In orbit around Earth.
He improved on the existing telescope around 1609
Around 1608
In orbit around Earth.
Galileo was the first to use a telescope for major discoveries, around the year 1610.
Yes he did. He famously spotted moons around Jupiter using a telescope.
"Space" is actually a pretty boring thing to examine, since there's nothing there. What you probably want is to examine things in space, and what kind of telescope is "best" depends on exactly what those things are.I've added a link to a website intended for newcomers to the hobby that details the sorts of tradeoffs in the various types of (optical) telescopes so that you can choose one that works for what you're interested in looking at.
i bet its worth around 5.00