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Telescope


1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope

1996 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope

1995 Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away)

1993 Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space

1992 Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets

1992 George Lovi, U.S. columnist (Sky and Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies

1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264

1991 Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii

1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space

1990 Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses

1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit

1980 Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated

1976 World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.)

1974 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away

1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope

1962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope

1949 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used

1948 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory

1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed

1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech

1911 Grote Reber, U.S., astronomer, 1st parabolic radio telescope

1910 Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies

1889 John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope

1862 Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius

1851 Alvan Clark patents telescope

1849 William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope

1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope

1764 Gov Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire

1682 John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope

1621 Galileo invents telescope

1619 John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried

1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope

1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope

1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey



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