Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology

Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology.

Table of contents
1 Timeline
2 References

Timeline

Before Christ era

AD 1 - 999

1000s

  • 1074-92 - Malikshah observatory at Isfahan used by al-Khayyam

1100s

  • 1119-25 - Cairo al-Bataihi observatory for al-Afdal

1200s

1400s

1500s

1600s

1700s

1800s

1900s

1910s

1930s

1940s

  • 1949 - Palomar 48-inch Schmidt optical reflecting telescope begins operation, located in Palomar, California
  • 1949 - Palomar 200-inch optical reflecting telescope (Hale telescope) begins regular operation, located in Palomar, California

1950s

  • 1957 - Bernard Lovell and his group complete the Jodrell Bank 250-foot steerable radio telescope
  • 1957 - Peter Scheuer publishes his PhD method for obtaining source counts of spatially unresolved sources

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

  • 2001 - First light at VLTI. Operations in the interferometry mode of VLT start at ESO, with 103 m baseline

References

Cambridge Illustrated History of Astronomy ISBN 0521411580

History of Science and Technology ISBN 0-87196-475-9

Wilson Chronology of Science and Technology ISBN 0-8242-0933-8

Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science ISBN 0415124107






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