Then, we analyzed how refracting telescopes and compound microscopes function using the same principles. ... Crash Course Physics is produced in association with PBS Digital Studios.

The Stellarvue 180mm f/7 APO triplet refracting telescope ... All photographs were taken with the SVX180T f/7 and a ZWO ASI6200MM Pro CMOS camera with Chroma filters on an Astro-Physics ...

I’d taken a small, 66 mm refracting telescope along with me for the trip and decided to see whether I could capture the green flash as the Sun set over the Pacific. The air was very clear at the ...

The observatory houses a Warner & Swasey refracting telescope with a 13 3/8-inch objective, a 4½-inch finder and a 1-inch finder. Gary Kader, the observatory’s director, said it’s one of the ...

Reflection and refraction are the two main aspects of geometric optics. ... a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, ... telescopes, microscopes, ...

Dr. Caitlin Casey, an observational astronomer, has recently joined the physics department at UC Santa Barbara. She co-leads the C.O.S.M.O.S. collaboration — a project distinguished by its deep ...

The first telescopes used lenses, known as refracting telescopes. Small instruments – whether for amateur astronomers starting out or people keen to look at distant mountains or spy on their ...

UWM physics Professor Jolien Creighton explains, “Yerkes is a refracting telescope, which means that it focuses light on a photographic plate or an eyepiece using lenses, like eyeglasses.” ...

A local chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society, hosts annual receptions for the induction of new student members. The department operates historic McKim Observatory. McKim contains many ...

Home to the world’s largest refracting telescope, the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin was so influential that Albert Einstein insisted on visiting. Now you can too. Sometimes called “the ...

Jim Lattis traces the history of Sherburne W. Burnham’s 6-inch refractor telescope. Jim Lattis, Director of UW Space Place, discusses the history of Sherburne W. Burnham’s telescope, a 6-inch ...