NATS 1745 Study Guide - Final Guide: Circular Orbit, Fixed Stars, Orbital Period
18 Apr 2014
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Final exam ch 8 discoveries about the solar. The discovery of uranus: begins in late 17th century (1800s) fainter celestial bodies. Century after newton constructed first successful reflecting telescope. In era where telescopes getting bigger and bigger allowing astronomers to detect fainter and. Known celestial bodies prior to this point consisted of what we could see with naked eye. Galileo first person to change that in 1600s b/c he discovered jupiter"s moons. Nearly century after galileo"s death, nothing new in sky was discovered until german musician. William herschel (1738-1822) was an amateur astronomer who built the largest telescopes of his time. Astronomy at this time was expensive hobby; to purchase a telescope was extremely expensive. While cataloguing stars to aid the search for stellar parallax (and therefore the 1st stellar distances), he became the 1st person to discover a planet. In herschel"s time stellar parallax still hadn"t be detected.
