Telescopes for radiation astronomy/Quiz

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Radiation telescopes is a lecture and part of the radiation astronomy course on the principles of radiation astronomy.

The Flagstaff Astrometric Scanning Transit Telescope (FASTT) is a completely automated transit telescope utilizing scan-mode CCD cameras to measure the positions of hundreds of thousands of stars to fainter than 17th magnitude. Credit: US Naval Observatory.

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Quiz

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Hypotheses

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  1. Every aspect of a telescope is open to questioning.

See also

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