Dobsonian telescope

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

A Dobsonian telescope is an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope design popularized by John Dobson in 1965 and credited with vastly increasing the size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Dobsonian telescope”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: first uploaded on the English-speaking Wikipedia under the same filename, Copyrighted free use, via Wikimedia Commons.