Telescope Trivia Part 1

So, have you gotten your starter telescope yet?

Like my advise, go for the starter telescope that's light, portable, easy to set up, easy to maintain, ready for upgrading, and light on the budget.

There are many starter telescope stores in the country which offers the one that's right for everybody such as Scope City and Orion Telescopes. Why don't you check them out?

Now, let's have some bit of trivia about the telescope:

1. The smallest telescope is created by Carl Zeiss Optical. This telescope is just 4.5 inches by 1 inch in diameter - no one would notice you have it in your pocket!
Features: 10-mm lens
5x long-range magnification
10x short-range magnification
Plus feature: also serves as magnifying glass. However tiny, the telescope is magnificent in its own right!

2. The early large reflecting telescope were built by George Ellery Hale which is found in Southern California. Currently the Keck II Telescope is the world's largest reflecting telescope, which is 4 times better then Hale's reflecting telescopes in terms of gathering light.
Keck's primary mirror is 10 meters in diameter, as against Hale telescope's 5 meter primary mirror.

3. The largest refracting telescope was also build by George Ellery Hale. It is a 40-in refractor, and is housed in the Yerkes Observatory. This telescope has an aperture of 102 cm./ 40 in.

4. The most expensive telescope is the HubbleTelescope. Launched in April 25, 1990, the Hubble telescope has since then gave mankind awesome space photographs. The price of the Hubble Telescope is estimated at 7 Billion US dollars. The Hubble Telescope will remain in its orbit until the year 2010.