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Final Project
Invented in 1608 by the Dutch lens maker, Hans Lippershey the telescope
has been the tool in the discovery of everything we know of today in outer space.
There are two types of telescopes that one can buy.
refracting telescope, which uses a glass lenses, and the reflector telescope
which uses mirror instead of lenses. Both of these telescopes accomplish the
same thing, but in two completely different ways.
refractors, or main mirror, in reflectors, collects light from a distant object and
brings that light to a point or focus. The eyepiece lens takes the light from the
focus of the objective lens or main mirror and magnifies it. An example of this
would be a magnifying lens. When you combine the objective lens or main mirror
with the eyepiece, you have a telescope. The essential idea is to collect a lot of
light to form a bright image inside the telescope, and then use something like a
magnifying glass to enlarge that image. Telescopes have two general properties;
how well it can collect light and how much it can magnify an image.
The
Once the
telescope was created me and my assistant took to the tallest parking garage on
campus to test it out. Unfortunately, the moon wasnt out on the night we went to
test it so we used the USF water tower as the focal point for the calculations. I
first started out by calculating the magnifying power of the telescope. I found the
magnifying power to be roughly 10x. I found this by looking at the water tower
through the telescope and with my naked eye and estimated. Next, I had to
calculate the field of view for the telescope. I found this by researching the
height of the water tower and the distance away from the Juniper Poplar parking
garage (the exact calculations are attached). Lastly, I had to find the angular
resolution of the telescope. I did this by estimating the size of the USF logo on
the water tower in comparison to the water tower, and then plugged it into the
equation (again, exact calculations are attached).