Where are most optical telescopes are located?

Answer 1

1. Radio telescopes are directional radio antennae that have a curved shape and are used like other astronomical telescopes to study objects in the universe beyond Earth and the Solar System. They gather radio waves and process them by using a computer.

Answer 2

Radio telescopes are instruments that are used to detect radio waves from a particular area. Radio waves are on the electromagnetic spectrum, as with visible light, though the wavelength is much longer, from a few cm up to several km. This means that the frequency is very low compared to visible light.

The radio telescope allows observers to gather a lot more information, phenomena and patterns which cant be seen with normal telescopes.

They are often large dishes, which can be aimed at different areas of the sky. the dish helps to gather the radio waves and focus them onto a central detector to increase the signal.

Answer 3

Optical telescopes are found through out the world. They have even been taken to space as in the Hubble Telescope.

The Optical telescope is the main telescope used by amateur astronomers. They are used in Gardens through out the world.

Professional optical telescopes are generally placed on the very top of mountings. This is to reduce the amount of distortion caused by the atmosphere. The Keck observatory for example is at an altitude of 4.2 km atop the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii.

Answer 4

The largest individual radio telescope dish is the Arecibo Radio Telescope at Arecibo

in Puerto Rico. It is 305 m in diameter.

Most radio telescopes however are made up from arrays of dishes which when used

together act as a single detector of large size. The VLA (very Large Array) consists of

27 separate dishes on 3 Y shaped arms 21 km in length.

That however is dwarfed by the VLBA (very large baseline array) with 10 dishes as far

apart as Hawaii and the US virgin Islands a distance 8611 km.

Answer 5

You can buy it from POAM Electronics Company; who is European Manufacturer of Radio Telescope.

Answer 6

On top of high mountains, where the air is clearer (and thinner).

Answer 7

In outer space. It doesn't make much sense to put an x-ray telescope on Earth, since most x-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

Answer 8

On a mountaintop