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Refracting telescopes use lenses. Reflecting telescopes use mirrors to reflect things that's why it's called a reflecting telescope. Now back to refracting telescopes, they work exactly like magnifying glasses. It use a convex lens to bend light and bring it into focus, and a concave lens to magnify it.
It also does that by directing light beams to meet at a focal point
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∙ 9y agoA telescope is an amazing device that has the ability to make faraway objects appear much closer. Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes, from a little plastic tube you buy at a toy storefor $2, to the Hubble Space Telescope, which weighs several tons. Amateur telescopes fit somewhere in between, and even though they are not nearly as powerful as the Hubble, they can do some incredible things. For example, a small 6-inch (15 centimeter) scope lets you read the writing on a dime from 150 feet (55 meters) away!
Most of the telescopes you see today come in one of two flavors:
- The refractor telescope, which uses glass lenses.
- The reflector telescope, which uses mirrors instead of the lenses.
Both types accomplish exactly the same thing, but in completely different ways.
To understand how telescopes work, let's ask the following
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Is the difference between a refracting telescope and a reflecting telescope?
A reflecting telescope uses mirrors while refracting telescopes uses lens. The refracting telescope also had chromatic aberration and bad resolution while the reflecting telescope had none of these.
How is a radio telescope different from a refracting telescope?
A radio telescope detects light in the form of radio waves and a refracting telescope detects light in the visible wavelengths
What kind of telescope did Galileo invent?
Refracting telescope
Is a telescope with incoming light passing through glass refracting?
refracting
What is a refracting and a reflecting telescope?
A refracting telescope is a type of telescope that has a large thin lense at the front and a smaller thicker lense at the end where the eyepiece is. Refracting telescopes use lenses unlike reflecting telescopes that use mirrors to reflect the light. This is a good image of a refracting and reflecting telescope: [See related link]
How does refracting telescope work?
it doesnt
A refracting telescope produce an image using an?
A refracting telescope is a type of optical telescope. It was used in astronomical telescopes and spy glasses. Objective lens are used to produce the image.
Who invented telescope?
HANS LIPPERSHEY INVENTED REFRACTING TELESCOPE.
Did Galileo invent the reflecting or the refracting telescope?
no
Which culture invented the refracting telescope?
DUTCH
What other things were developed using the refracting telescope design?
the reflecting telescope was!!
A refracting telescope in a type of what telescope?
One that you look through, rather than into.
