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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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