Telescopes: Crash Course Astronomy #6
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Today Phil explains how telescopes work and offers up some astronomical shopping advice. -- How Telescopes Work 1:07 Refractors vs Reflectors 2:50 Technology and the Light Spectrum 7:45 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow Phil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/badastronomer Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Subbable: http://subbable.com/crashcourse -- PHOTOS/VIDEOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#mediaviewer/File:Justus_Sustermans_-_Portrait_of_Galileo_Galilei,_1636.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye#mediaviewer/File:Human_eye_with_blood_vessels.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refracting_telescope#mediaviewer/File:Refractor_Cincinnati_observatory.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Positive_lens_2.svg http://www.eso.org/public/images/yb_vlt_moon_cnn_cc/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#mediaviewer/File:Jupiter_MAD.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Field_and_Planetary_Camera#mediaviewer/File:Hubble_Images_of_M100_Before_and_After_Mirror_Repair_-_GPN-2002-000064.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_focus_telescope.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inspection_of_the_primary_mirror_of_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope8218871.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui6ernRFxOg#t=2m22s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel#mediaviewer/File:William_Herschel01.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_Canyon_National_Park,_23_Annual_Star_Party_2013_-_0082_-_Flickr_-_Grand_Canyon_NPS.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_talk:EM_spectrum.svg#mediaviewer/File:EM_spectrumrevised.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqX9vLj3_7w#t=4m52s http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~still/wordpress/?page_id=138 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERITAS#mediaviewer/File:MMT_FLWO_Amado_AZ_10359.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophotography#mediaviewer/File:Henry_Drape_Orion_nebula_1880_inverted.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophotography#mediaviewer/File:Orion-Nebula_A_A_Common.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA18593-Mars-CometSidingSpring-NEOWISE-20140728.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Jupiter_and_its_shrunken_Great_Red_Spot.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Chromatic_aberration_3.svg/2000px-Chromatic_aberration_3.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/The_Whirlpool_Galaxy_%28M51%29.jpg http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/12/image/a/
Comments
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this is a very good channel. 😊😊😍😍
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this channel reminds me of ted ed
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Phil, I must say that you are one of the funnest teachers I've heard! These episodes have been inspiring and make me excited to learn more about astronomy!
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You're a genius
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if a was a teacher these series would be my lesons
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wait, when you show us a real pictures of jupiter why dont we see anything "star" behind the planet??? i am always asking this question to myself
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"Spatial" resolution regarding telescopes... newbies need to learn about radiometric, spectral, & temporal resolution once you start studying remote sensed imagery :D
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getting my first telescope for christmas so i thought id learn a bit about astronomy. these videos are great!
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more diagrams!
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Astro 20?
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bad
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I know every single thing in this whole series but it's still fun to watch
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hey
I'm actually working, on creating my own telescope !
I use two lenses but the one with 99mm, shows the view upside-down ! especially for far objects !
how can I resolve that ! thank you for these amazing videos 😄😄😄 -
Hans Lippershey? Inventor of telescope ?
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it's just un-American.
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hey why was that car in the animation on the left side of the road?
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Thanks for your videos!
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The way things work New Edition is a good book that has some stuff about light lenses mirrors and telescopes
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Do binoculars use mirrors also?
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I like how passionate he is about Astronomy
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