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This website allows teachers to discover the technology behind the Hobby-Eberly telescope in this series of simple activities. The activities include determining a cost-effective configuration for a primary mirror, determining the arrangement of mirror segments, aligning mirror segments so that they work together as a single large mirror and discovering why a tracker is needed to follow a star across the sky. This is part of a larger collection from McDonald Observatory.

http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/teachers/classroom/ttt/TelescopeTec...

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Astronomy - Instrumentation = Telescopes	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Informal Education	- Instructional Material = Activity = Lesson/Lesson Plan

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Educators	- application/pdf - text/html	Currently 0.0/5 Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2002 The University of Texas McDonald Observatory
Keywords:: mirror allignment, mirror array, segmeneted mirror, telescope
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created August 1, 2008 by Mary Kay Hemenway
Record Updated:: May 29, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
Last Update when Cataloged:: April 22, 2008

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