Turning Earth Into a Telescope | The Terrascope
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中文导读
David Kipping 介绍了其设想的 Terrascope——利用地球大气层作为透镜以实现极高放大倍率的空间望远镜。他梳理了望远镜演进史及萌生该构想的过程，并探讨了 Sol-scope 与 Jupiter-scope 等衍生方案。
为什么 HN 推它
在 HN 的天文板块讨论中，该视频常被推荐为解释如何利用地球大气或引力透镜效应的极佳科普内容。
「关于该主题非常精彩的视频」HN 网友原话：An excellent video on this
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
David Kipping presents his proposed Terrascope, a telescope that uses Earth's atmosphere as a lens to achieve enormous magnification. He covers the history of telescopes and his path to the idea, plus Sol-scope and Jupiter-scope variants.
HN people point to it as an excellent explanation of using Earth's atmosphere or gravity as a lens in astronomy threads.
HN 上的提及
Has anyone heard of terrascopes?
It's an amazing video
he also touches on a Sol-scope and a Jupiter-scope
you could do similar with atmospheric lensing of the earth from a lagrange point near the moon
An excellent video on this