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The simplest telescope design is the prime focus reflector.

Do you have any ACCESS Accommodations for this semester that I should be informed of?   

The largest reflector, the 10 m Keck, gathers __________ X more light than the largest 1 m Yerkes refractor.

A telescope design that uses a lens and no mirrors is a refractor.

Photography with film is still the preferred way of capturing fine detail in the faintest, most distant galaxies.

The “guest star” observed by the Chinese in 1054 is now known to have been a __________.

The three laws of planetary motion by ________________ allowed us to predict planetary motion.

The ability of a telescope to separate two closely spaced stars is called ______ .

An advantage a reflector has over a refractor is the elimination of ________ .

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