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0678-0685 Pictures at an attraction with distorting mirrors (both convex
and concave)
0686 Convex mirror on a bus
Convex mirror at Portmeirion
Reflection: Distorted mirror at farm entrance giving weird image of tractor
Reflection: Surface of GSHS swimming pool
Telescopes:
During the course, you'll be making a small telescope which uses two convex
lenses.
In your report you will need to include a section the Vocational
Implications of Lenses and Mirrors.
The massive telescopes used in Astronomy are one area you might like to
write about.
Check out the links below.
Ground -based telescopes
The world's largest optical
telescopes
Planets over Paranal
observatory APOD Aug 2005
A window to the once
secret sky APOD April 2005
A telescope laser
creates an artificial star for the Keck-II telescope APOD Feb 2005
Night MAGIC APOD
Oct 2004
La Silla's starry night
APOD Sept 2004
Mars Through a Small
Telescope
Canada France Hawaii Telescope
Keck: The Largest
Optical Telescopes APOD Dec 1997
Space-based telescopes
News from the Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble Floats Free
*** APOD Nov 2002
Chandra orbiting X-Ray telescope July 1999
Spitzer Infrared Space Telescope
Solar Telescopes
The Swedish 1 metre Solar Telescope Nov 2002
Other telescopes
The HESS Gamma-Ray
telescope APOD Sept 2002
Roque de los Muchachos
Observatory APOD Aug 2002
The
Carlsberg Meridian Telescope
The Dutch Open Telescope
(Solar)
The William
Herschel Telescope
The Isaac
Newton Telescope