Astronomy

Light is the cosmic messenger and telescopes are the receivers.

Our great telescopes bring the space just in front of us and reveal incredible information about our universe!!!

Extra Credit Assignment!!!

This special assignment is a written (typed) assignment about a

telescope. Aim of this assignment is encourage you to use extra

resources other than the class materials to enhance your

knowledge in this subject.

Research about different types of telescopes and find out your favorite telescope.

Some links about different categories of telescopes are given here. You can search

a list of telescopes as of your interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_telescopes

https://www.space.com/14075-10-biggest-telescopes-earth-comparison.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optical_telescopes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_telescopes

Write about your favorite telescope (at least a page, but you are welcome to

extend it, if you like to write more). Assignment should contain the following.

Tittle: Name of the telescope

Your name

Content:

• Category Ex: optical, X-ray etc.…); space or ground based telescope?

• Aim/purpose/ focus of the telescope

• Design/structure/ instrumentation

• Location of the telescope

• Time/year of operation

• Achievements (discuss few achievements)

• Future plans /upgrades

• References

• Include picture/s (a picture of the telescope and any picture/s of its

important observations); properly cite when you use images.

Due Date: Tuesday, March 19

I hope you will enjoy this assignment, earn extra credit and gain more knowledge about telescopes!!!