• The Gregorian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope designed by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory in the 17th century, and first...
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    the largest Gregorian telescope ever built, observing in optical and mid-infrared wavelengths (320–25,000 nm). Commissioning of the telescope is anticipated...
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    He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite...
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  • the Illuminator The Gregorian telescope, named after James Gregory Gregorian (band), German band that performs Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern...
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    Lennon Telescope and its Thomas J. Bannan Astrophysics Facility, known together as the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), is a Gregorian telescope...
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    to build this type of telescope, which became known as the Gregorian telescope. Five years after Gregory designed his telescope and five years before...
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    The history of the telescope can be traced to before the invention of the earliest known telescope, which appeared in 1608 in the Netherlands, when a...
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    Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in Green Bank, West Virginia, US is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, surpassing the Effelsberg...
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  • Atmospheric Cherenkov telescope used to detect gamma rays Infrared telescope Radio telescope Submillimeter telescope Ultraviolet telescope (see also Ultraviolet...
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  • and produces a much improved Gregorian telescope 1721 — John Hadley experiments with the neglected Newtonian telescope design and demonstrates one with...
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