The Kepler spacecraft consists of a Schmidt telescope mounted on the spacecraft bus. The Schmidt telescope consists of a 1.4 m primary mirror, a 0.95 m fused-quartz corrector plate, …
New Uses for the Kepler Telescope: A Survey of the Ecliptic Plane For Transiting Planets and Star Formation. The Kepler mission has revolutionized the field of exoplanets with its 4 years …
Geometry: Exoplanets 1 The Kepler Telescope which are planets outside our solar system. It looks for transit dips in the light of a star that happen Figure 1: The Kepler Telescope …
It orbited the Sun while slowly drifting away from the Earth During this time, it found several planets, such as Kepler 10-b and 22-b
The Kepler Space Telescope The Planet Hunter Kepler (Kep-ler) is a space telescope (tel-e-scope). It was named after German scientist (sci-en-tist) Johannes Kepler, who described the …
Hans Lippershey, a German-Dutch lens maker, may have invented the telescope and Galileo may have been the first to point it to the heavens, but it was Kepler who explained how the …
This document presents an overview of Kepler, then follows the photons through the telescope, focal plane, and focal plane electronics. It discusses how targets and the pixels of interest …