Optical Vs. Non-Telescopes: Different Differences

Optical vs Non-Optical

We end the great design debate.

There are plenty of different telescopes that have been invented. The two main differences between telescopes is that they are either optical or non-optical.

Non-optical telescopes are telescopes that are used by viewers to look at other electromagnetic spectrums other than the visible light. Some of these are radio waves, X-rays, infrared rays, Gamma rays and ultraviolet rays. There is one major advantage of non-optical telescopes over optical telescopes and that is non-optical telescopes help the viewers to see things that the naked eyes are unable to. To end the debate of design the reflector, refraction, X-ray and radio telescope were looked at in detail to give you a brief over view

The first picture taken by an X-ray rocket-borne telescope was taken in 1963 and it was of the sun. This telescope was built two centuries after the reflector telescope. In the early 1970s the first ever orbiting X-ray telescope was created. The way X-ray telescopes work is that they collect the X-rays that are emitted by the stars, sun and super nova’s in space. This is done through the use of curved lenses and an electronic eye. This telescopes allows astronomers to be able to produce images of the celestial bodies so that further study can be completed. As time goes on, the X-ray images of stars from the telescopes give astronomers a lot of information such as the patterns and changes that may be occurring. X-rays are a form of radiation just like heat or light. They are invisible to the human eye but easily absorbed, however an X-ray telescope does not allow the X-rays to be absorbed. For this the lens is made from either nickel or gold, with a curved surface. Due to the abbe sine condition, for X-rays to be properly refracted they must pass over an even number of curved mirrors, that are parallel to each other. When the waves hit the lens, they get bent or are refracted. There are objects built into the telescope so that data can be recorded. One of these things is the collimated detector, which is what collects the X-ray signals. The electronic eye then records the location of where the rays came from. The pictures that are taken by the telescope show the pattern of the waves and the time and angle of