Early telescopes/Quiz
Early telescopes is a lecture for the instruments project of the same name studying the possibility that telescopes in some form have been used from the Earth's surface for millennia.
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Contents
Quiz[edit]
Hypotheses[edit]
- A careful and systematic comparison of a telescope and a torch that look like the item balancing or attached to the armillary sphere should be able differentiate between a telescope and a torch.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- International Astronomical Union
- NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database - NED
- NASA's National Space Science Data Center
- The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
- SDSS Quick Look tool: SkyServer
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- SIMBAD Web interface, Harvard alternate
- Spacecraft Query at NASA.
- Universal coordinate converter