No. A radio telescope is always a reflecting telescope; the wire mesh in the dish is opaque and reflective at radio frequencies. The parabolic dish reflects all of the radio waves back to the feed...
Well, its simple, there are two things that are in common.... both telescopes have a eye peice and a radio telescope doesnt.... theres more to it and the radio telescope looks way diffrent then the...
Due to the larger weight involved with a larger telescope, a lens in a large refracting telescope will become distorted and no longer project an image to the proper focal point. With a reflecting...
Reflective and Radio telescopes gather radiation at different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that they operate, visible light for the optical telescope and Radio frequencies for the Radio...