Telescopes and instruments

Optics, detectors, and the instruments that turn photons into data.

Scope

• Reflectors, refractors and optical design
• Angular resolution, diffraction and adaptive optics
• Detectors: CCD, CMOS, bolometers
• Spectrographs, coronagraphs and interferometers
• Radio arrays and very long baseline interferometry

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.