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Chapter 6Telescopes: Portals of Discovery
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6.1 Eyes and Cameras: Everyday Light Sensors
• Our goals for learning• How does your eye form an image?• How do we record images?
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How does your eye form an image?
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Refraction• Refraction is the
bending of light when it passes from one substance into another
• Your eye uses refraction to focus light
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Example: Refraction at Sunset
• Sun appears distorted at sunset because of how light bends in Earth’s atmosphere
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Focusing Light
• Refraction can cause parallel light rays to converge to a focus
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Image Formation
• The focal plane is where light from different directions comes into focus
• The image behind a single (convex) lens is actually upside-down!
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How do we record images?
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Focusing Light
• A camera focuses light like an eye and captures the image with a detector
• The CCD detectors in digital cameras are similar to those used in modern telescopes
Digital cameras detect light with charge-coupled devices (CCDs)
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What have we learned?• How does your eye form an image?
– It uses refraction to bend parallel light rays so that they form an image.
– The image is in focus if the focal plane is at the retina.
• How do we record images?– Cameras focus light like your eye and record
the image with a detector. – The detectors (CCDs) in digital cameras are
like those used on modern telescopes
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6.2 Telescopes: Giant Eyes
• Our goals for learning• What are the two most important properties
of a telescope?• What are the two basic designs of
telescopes?• What do astronomers do with telescopes?
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What are the two most important properties of a telescope?
1. Light-collecting area: Telescopes with a larger collecting area can gather a greater amount of light in a shorter time.
2. Angular resolution: Telescopes that are larger are capable of taking images with greater detail.
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Light Collecting Area
• A telescope’s diameter tells us its light-collecting area: Area = π(diameter/2)2
• The largest telescopes currently in use have a diameter of about 10 meters
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Bigger is better
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Angular Resolution• The minimum
angular separation that the telescope can distinguish.
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Angular Resolution• Ultimate limit to
resolution comes from interference of light waves within a telescope.
• Larger telescopes are capable of greater resolution because there’s less interference
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Angular Resolution• Ultimate limit to
resolution comes from interference of light waves within a telescope.
• Larger telescopes are capable of greater resolution because there’s less interference
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Angular Resolution• The rings in this
image of a star come from interference of light wave.
• This limit on angular resolution is known as the diffraction limit
Close-up of a star from the HubbleSpace Telescope
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What are the two basic designs of telescopes?
• Refracting telescope: Focuses light with lenses
• Reflecting telescope: Focuses light with mirrors
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Refracting Telescope
• Refracting telescopes need to be very long, with large, heavy lenses
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Reflecting Telescope
• Reflecting telescopes can have much greater diameters
• Most modern telescopes are reflectors
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Designs for Reflecting Telescopes
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Mirrors in Reflecting Telescopes
Twin Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea in Hawaii
Segmented 10-meter mirror of a Keck telescope
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What do astronomers do with telescopes?
• Imaging: Taking pictures of the sky• Spectroscopy: Breaking light into spectra• Timing: Measuring how light output varies
with time
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Imaging• Astronomical
detectors generally record only one color of light at a time
• Several images must be combined to make full-color pictures
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Imaging• Astronomical
detectors can record forms of light our eyes can’t see
• Color is sometimes used to represent different energies of nonvisible light
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Spectroscopy• A spectrograph
separates the different wavelengths of light before they hit the detector
Diffractiongrating breakslight intospectrum
Detectorrecordsspectrum
Light from only one starenters
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Spectroscopy• Graphing
relative brightness of light at each wavelength shows the details in a spectrum
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Timing
• A light curve represents a series of brightness measurements made over a period of time
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Want to buy your own telescope?
• Buy binoculars first (e.g. 7x35) - you get much more for the same money.
• Ignore magnification (sales pitch!)• Notice: aperture size, optical quality,
portability.• Consumer research: Astronomy, Sky & Tel,
Mercury. Astronomy clubs.
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What have we learned?• What are the two most important properties of a
telescope?– Collecting area determines how much light a
telescope can gather– Angular resolution is the minimum angular
separation a telescope can distinguish• What are the two basic designs of telescopes?
– Refracting telescopes focus light with lenses– Reflecting telescopes focus light with mirrors– The vast majority of professional telescopes
are reflectors
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What have we learned?
• What do astronomers do with telescopes?– Imaging– Spectroscopy– Timing
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6.3 Telescopes and the Atmosphere
• Our goals for learning• How does Earth’s atmosphere affect
ground-based observations?• Why do we put telescopes into space?
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How does Earth’s atmosphere affect ground-based observations?
• The best ground-based sites for astronomical observing are– Calm (not too windy)– High (less atmosphere to see through)– Dark (far from city lights)– Dry (few cloudy nights)
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Light Pollution
• Scattering of human-made light in the atmosphere is a growing problem for astronomy
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Twinkling and Turbulence
Turbulent air flow in Earth’s atmosphere distorts our view, causing stars to appear to twinkle
Star viewed with ground-based telescope
Same star viewed with Hubble Space Telescope
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Adaptive Optics
Rapidly changing the shape of a telescope’s mirror compensates for some of the effects of turbulence
Without adaptive optics With adaptive optics
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Calm, High, Dark, Dry• The best
observing sites are atop remote mountains
Summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii
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Why do we put telescopes into space?
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Transmission in Atmosphere
• Only radio and visible light pass easily through Earth’s atmosphere
• We need telescopes in space to observe other forms
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What have learned?• How does Earth’s atmosphere affect ground-
based observations?– Telescope sites are chosen to minimize the
problems of light pollution, atmospheric turbulence, and bad weather.
• Why do we put telescopes into space?– Forms of light other than radio and visible do
not pass through Earth’s atmosphere.– Also, much sharper images are possible
because there is no turbulence.
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6.4 Eyes and Cameras: Everyday Light Sensors
• Our goals for learning• How can we observe nonvisible light?• How can multiple telescopes work together?
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How can we observe nonvisible light?
• A standard satellite dish is essentially a telescope for observing radio waves
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Radio Telescopes
• A radio telescope is like a giant mirror that reflects radio waves to a focus
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IR & UV Telescopes
• Infrared and ultraviolet-light telescopes operate like visible-light telescopes but need to be above atmosphere to see all IR and UV wavelengths
SOFIA Spitzer
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X-Ray Telescopes
• X-ray telescopes also need to be above the atmosphere
Chandra
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X-Ray Telescopes
• Focusing of X-rays requires special mirrors• Mirrors are arranged to focus X-ray photons through
grazing bounces off the surface
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Gamma Ray Telescopes• Gamma ray
telescopes also need to be in space
• Focusing gamma rays is extremely difficult
Compton Observatory
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How can multiple telescopes work together?
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Interferometry
• Interferometery is a technique for linking two or more telescopes so that they have the angular resolution of a single large one
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Interferometry
• Easiest to do with radio telescopes
• Now becoming possible with infrared and visible-light telescopes
Very Large Array (VLA)
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Future of Astronomy in Space?
• The Moon would be an ideal observing site