optical telescope that has a large convex lens that produces an image that is viewed through the eyepiece
refracting telescope
| Kinds of ...: refracting telescope |
kinds of:
- field glass, glass, spyglass — a small refracting telescope
- Galilean telescope — a type of refracting telescope that is no longer used in astronomy
| ... is a Kind of: refracting telescope |
is a kind of:
- optical telescope — an astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources
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- photoheliograph (optics)
- refracting telescope
- dewcap (optics)
- Galilean telescope (optics)
- parallel-slit interferometer (optics)
- refracting
- Lick Observatory (structure, California – in astronomy)
- Pulkovo (structure, Russia – in astronomy)
- Yerkes Observatory (structure, Wisconsin – in astronomy)
- Alvan Clark (American astronomer)
- Christiaan Huygens (Scientist)
- United States Naval Observatory (structure, United States – in astronomy, government)
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