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New Telescope Terminology

Posted on February 5, 2010 by timlyg

For all ground-based telescopes: Adaptive Optics: Technology in telescope mirror that can bend in ways that adjust and cancel out small distortion caused by atmospheric pressures. Liquid Mirror Telescopes: Spinning liquid mercury on a base so that it would have … Continue reading →

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