Chapter 6 Images

6.1 A wave

6.2 An electromagnetic wave

6.3 Electromagnetic Flux

6.4 Wave relationships

6.5 Electromagnetic spectrum

6.6 The Doppler effect

6.7 The photoelectric effect

6.8 Photon energies

6.9 Reflection

6.10 Refraction

6.11 Refraction & wave speed

6.12 Refraction in glass

6.13 Dispersion by a prism

6.14 A crude prism lens

6.15 Focusing by a lens

6.17 Focusing by mirrors

6.18 Parabolic mirror

6.19 Formation of an image

6.20 Telescope eyepiece

6.21 A CCD

6.22 A CCD image and a photographic image

6.23 Spectrograph schematic

6.24 The Sun's spectrum

6.26 The Palomar telescope

6.27 One of the two Keck Telescopes on Mauna Kea

6.28 Atmosphere transmission

6.29 U.S. at night from space

6.30 Tucson, Arizona

6.34 Mauna Kea Observatory, Hawaii

6.35 Hubble Space Telescope

6.38 Grazing incidence optics

6.39 A ROSAT image

6.40 The 305-m radio telescope of the Arecibo Observatory

6.41 Interference fringes

6.42 The Very Large Array

6.43 The VLBA

6.45 Telescope resolutions

Bonus Image: Making an artificial star

Bonus Image: Image sharpening using adaptive optics

Bonus Image: Galaxy M100

Bonus Image: IRAS and optical images of Milky Way's center

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