Sentence examples for main mirror of from inspiring English sources

The main mirror of the Hale Telescope measures 5 metres (200 inches) across and weighs 14.5 tons.

Pyrex also was utilized in the main mirror of the 6-metre (236-inch) reflector of the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Zelenchukskaya, Russia.

The mirror support cell holds the main mirror on a set of 60 pneumatic cylinders.

This effect arises because light waves must travel slightly different distances from different parts of the telescope's main mirror to its detector.

The plan involves relocating some of the DSLR's mirrors to allow the main mirror to record the image while you focus via the LCD.

Before reaching the prime focus, the light rays are reflected again by a small convex mirror that brings them to a focus near a small hole in the centre of the main mirror.

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena were already at work on a backup for Hubble's original camera, the Wide-Field Planetary camera, or "wiff pick," when it was discovered soon after Hubble's launching in 1990 that the telescope's main mirror had blurred vision because of a warp known as spherical aberration.

If Hubble were to descend in a completely uncontrolled re-entry, parts of the main mirror and its support structure would probably survive, leaving the potential for damage or even human fatalities.

The Hubble Space Telescope main mirror imperfections have provided an inordinate amount of images for the digital image processing community [1].

The first step was a precise characterization of the error in the main mirror.

Its 39.3m main mirror will be more than four times the width of today's best optical telescopes (antennas for radio telescopes are still very much bigger).