Key:telescope:type

Usage

Must be used together with man_made=telescope.

This tag is used to broadly categorise the spectrum that the telescope senses.

Values

Optical

Everything from infra red to ultra violet. This includes all the visible spectrum.

• telescope:type=optical

Radio

Radio telescopes includes all kinds of antennas - dish, phased arrays, dipoles, helical etc.

• telescope:type=radio

Gamma

• telescope:type=gamma

Questionable Tags

Solar

• telescope:type=solar?

Solar telescopes, sometimes called heliograph or photoheliograph are a special kind of optical telescope for observing the sun. Should these be tagged as optical telescopes? They certain should have the same or similar symbol.

Possible synonyms

telescope:type=phased_array

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• telescope:type=phased_array ‒ This is a radio telescope. The phased array mechanism should be further sub-tagged, however such conflicting values are expected for a "de facto" or "in use" tag, especially for the ambiguous *:type=* key suffix. Observing statistics cursorily in July 2020, there are 251 telescope:spectrum=* tagging the spectrum more clearly and detailedly, compared to 1822 telescope:type=*

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

telescope:type=radar

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• telescope:type=radar ‒ Telescopes are passive detectors. Radar are most commonly active radars, emitting a pulse of power to detect the returning reflection.

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

See also

• telescope:spectrum=* a clear and more detailed key in use.