With an improved telescope he built, he observed the stars of the Milky Way, the phases of Venus, the four largest satellites of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, lunar ...
His father wanted him to take up law, but Tycho was allowed to travel to Rostock and then to Augsburg, where he built a great quadrant, then Basel, and Freiburg ...
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse KP FRS (17 June 1800 – 31 October 1867), was an English engineer and astronomer. He built several giant telescopes.
Dobson himself was reluctant to take credit, pointing out that he built it that way because it was all he needed. ... telescope in the museum's public observatory ...
In 1641 he built an observatory on the roofs of his three connected houses ... This may have been the longest "tubed" telescope before the advent of the tubeless ...
Instead of using wood as with previous models, he built the new one out of metal and masonry to enhance its stability and therefore improve the accuracy of his ...
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An amateur radio operator, Grote Reber, was one of the pioneers of what became known as radio astronomy. He built the first parabolic "dish" radio telescope ...