* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

A 22 " Newtonian telescope | Newtonian reflector sits in front of the clubhouse at Stellafane, home of the Springfield Telescope Makers

In the United States in the early 1920s articles in Popular Astronomy by Russell W. Porter and in Scientific American by Albert G. Ingalls featuring Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers helped expand interest in the hobby.

* A Manual for Amateur Telescope Makers by Karine and Jean-Marc Lecleire ( PDF introduction )

* The Amateur Telescope Makers Email List — also has searchable archives

Stellafane ( Latin for shrine to the stars ) is the name of the clubhouse built by the Springfield Telescope Makers club of Springfield, Vermont in the early 1920s, and has since come to refer to the club's land and buildings on the summit of Breezy Hill.

The Springfield Telescope Makers grew out of a class on how to make telescopes that was started by Russell W. Porter in Springfield, Vermont in August 12, 1920.

Stellafane is still the location where the Springfield Telescope Makers hold most of their meetings.

It was started by Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers in 1926, as an occasion for some 20 amateur telescope makers to compare telescopes and exchange ideas.

* Albert Graham Ingalls, Scientific American editor who wrote stories about Russell W. Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers

* Russell W. Porter, founder of the Springfield Telescope Makers

The members of this small group decided to form an astronomical club and December 7, 1923 was the first meeting of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

The Springfield Telescope Makers invited other groups of stargazers to their clubhouse in 1926, to compare telescopes and exchange ideas.

In 1925 Albert G. Ingalls featured Porter and the Springfield Telescope Makers in two articles he wrote for Scientific American magazine.

* The Telescope Makers of Springfield, Vermont A 1923 article by Porter

Mayer was a member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers and a frequent lecturer at the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference.

Founded by Clifford W. Holmes and the Riverside Astronomical Society, the RTMC Astronomy Expo began in 1969 as the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference at Riverside City College in Riverside, California.

To better reflect the evolution of amateur astronomy, the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference was renamed the RTMC Astronomy Expo in 2003.

In 2007, the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference, Inc. announced a fall event to be held in Pasadena named the Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show ( PATS ).

* The ATM Site-A Short History of Amateur Telescope Making

Ira Brodsky, The History of Wireless, Telescope Books, p 20.

* Timeline of History of Lasers, John Talbot-Noted are discoveries of laser action in quasars ( 1973 ), CO < sub > 2 </ sub > lasers in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus ( 1981 ), far-infrared laser star by Kuiper Airborne Observatory ( 1995 ) and ultraviolet laser star by Hubble Space Telescope ( 1996 ).

* Epic Moon — A History of Lunar Exploration in the Age of the Telescope, William P. Sheehan and Thomas A. Dobbin, Willmann-Bell, Inc., 2001, ISBN 0-943396-70-0.

* A History of the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

Henry C. King in his work on The History of the Telescope noted that Zucchi was using a refracting ( Galilean ) telescope in his astronomical work.

* Mr. Pitt's Telescope: A Short History of the 27-Inch Reflector at the University of Kansas by D. J. Bord, 1980.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Edwin Hubble's arrival at Mount Wilson, California, in 1919 coincided roughly with the completion of the Hooker Telescope, then the world's largest telescope.

Using the Hooker Telescope at Mt.

A writer in " Time's Telescope " ( 1822 ) states that in Yorkshire at eight o ' clock on Christmas Eve the bells greet " Old Father Christmas " with a merry peal, the children parade the streets with drums, trumpets, bells, ( or in their absence, with the poker and shovel, taken from their humble cottage fire ), the yule candle is lighted, and ; " High on the cheerful fire.

In honor of his contribution to the study of the southern hemisphere sky, a 60-cm telescope at Reunion Island will be named the La Caille Telescope.

False-color image of the Sun's corona as seen in extreme ultraviolet ( at 17. 1 nm ) by the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope

Observations from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in 1997 revealed an " elongated bright central region " that peaked at 9 ″ ( 70 AU ) to the northeast of Vega.

The third largest fully steerable radio telescope is the 76-metre Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England.

More recently, the Fermi mission was launched carrying the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, which detects bursts at a rate of several hundred per year, some of which are bright enough to be observed at extremely high energies with Fermi's Large Area Telescope.

In September 2010 researchers from Australia said they had identified a dipole-like structure in the fine-structure constant across the observable universe, using data on quasars obtained by the Very Large Telescope, combined with the previous data obtained by Webb at the Keck telescopes.

In the night sky over ESO's Very Large Telescope ( VLT ) observatory at Paranal Observatory | Paranal, the Moon shines along with two bright companions: Venus and Jupiter.

The far-infrared extends to submillimeter wavelengths, which are observed by telescopes such as the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory.

When used together with adaptive optics, infrared interferometers, such as two 10 meter telescopes at Keck Observatory or the four 8. 2 meter telescopes that make up the Very Large Telescope Interferometer, can achieve high angular resolution.

The Hubble Space Telescope was serviced by the Space Shuttle while many other space telescopes cannot be serviced at all.

A picture of the Jupiter 2009 impact event blemish captured by the Keck II telescope and its NASA Infrared Telescope Facility | near-infrared camera at Mauna Kea Observatory, on July 20.

Lowell Observatory hosts 85, 000 visitors per year at their Steele Visitors Center who take guided daytime tours and view various wonders of the night sky through the Clark Telescope and other telescopes.

Lowell Observatory currently operates four research telescopes at its Anderson Mesa dark sky site, located southeast of Flagstaff, including the 72-inch ( 1. 8-meter ) Perkins Telescope ( in partnership with Boston University ) and the 42-inch ( 1. 1 m ) John S. Hall Telescope.

File: Lowell Observatory-Clark telescope. jpg | Alvan Clark Refractor Telescope, the first permanent telescope at Lowell Observatory

* Edwin Hubble-Astronomer and namesake of the Hubble Space Telescope was a physics and Spanish teacher and basketball coach at New Albany High School during the 1913-1914 academic year.

The deep-space images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory are made possible in part by the people and facilities at Marshall.