optical telescope

C648
concept

An optical telescope is an instrument that gathers and focuses visible light to produce magnified images of distant objects for observation and study.

All labels observed (21)

Label Occurrences
optical telescope canonical 70
astronomical observatory instrument 35
wide-field imager 7

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: optical telescope
Generated description
An optical telescope is an instrument that gathers and focuses visible light to produce magnified images of distant objects for observation and study.

Instances (108)

Instance Via concept surface
Palomar 60-inch Telescope
Palomar 18-inch Schmidt Telescope Schmidt telescope
du Pont Telescope
Snow solar telescope refracting telescope
100-inch Hooker telescope astronomical observatory instrument
Large Binocular Telescope
BTA-6 telescope astronomical observatory instrument
11-inch Clark refractor refracting telescope
Pan-STARRS 1 telescope wide-field telescope
Vacuum Tower Telescope
Carlos Sánchez Telescope astronomical observatory instrument
IAC-80 Telescope
Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope astronomical observatory instrument
Thirty Meter Telescope
European Extremely Large Telescope
140-foot Green Bank Telescope astronomical observatory instrument
120-inch Shane reflector
Nickel 1-m telescope
Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope robotic telescope
UT3 Unit Telescope
UT4
High Acuity Wide field K-band Imager wide-field imager
VST telescope
surface form: VST
ESO ELT
Multiple Mirror Telescope
VST
Whipple 10-meter Gamma-Ray Telescope astronomical observatory instrument
William Herschel Telescope
Liverpool Telescope
Unit Telescope 2
Gran Telescopio Canarias
Isaac Newton Telescope
Lick 36-inch refracting telescope refracting telescope
Nordic Optical Telescope
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo
Warsaw Telescope
New Technology Telescope
NTT 3.58 m Telescope
WFI wide field imager wide-field imager
ESO 3.6 m Telescope
MPG/ESO 2.2 m Telescope
Dark Energy Camera wide-field imager
Baade Telescope
Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope
SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope
SMARTS 1.3-meter Telescope
SMARTS 0.9-meter Telescope
SMARTS 0.6-meter Telescope
CTIO
surface form: Victor M. Blanco Telescope
Thaw Refractor refracting telescope