nope they are the same
Refracting telescopes tend to be more top heavy than reflecting telescopes because the lens at the front of the telescope, which is used to gather light, can be heavier than the mirrors used in reflecting telescopes. This imbalance can make refracting telescopes more prone to tipping if not properly balanced or supported.
Most modern telescopes are reflecting telescopes because reflecting telescopes are generally more cost-effective and easier to build at larger sizes compared to refracting telescopes. Reflecting telescopes also suffer less from chromatic aberration and can have a simpler design with fewer optical elements.
Not necessarily. Refracting telescopes can be large, but reflecting telescopes can also be quite large and often have larger apertures due to their design. The size of a telescope depends on its purpose and design specifications rather than whether it is refracting or reflecting.
Refracting telescopes suffer from chromatic aberration, refracting telescopes have several surfaces to shape and polish, making large glass lenses without interior defects is very difficult, and large glass lenses are more difficult to support than large mirrors.
Size... a reflecting telescope with the same power as a refracting telescope is much shorter. This is because, in the reflecting telescope, the incoming light is bounced off mirrors (often more than once) which means the physical length is much shorter than an equivalent refracting model.
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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.
If you are comparing the biggest telescopes in each type, that's because a large refracting telescope needs a huge lens, which gets expensive; also, the lens can't be supported, while a mirror can.
They have many other different types of telescopes than just reflecting!!!! I have a refracting telescope myself. They also have other things like binoculars and microscopes
The reflecting telescope was invented by English scientist Sir Isaac Newton in 1668. He designed this type of telescope to overcome some of the limitations of the refracting telescopes that were used at the time. The reflecting telescope uses mirrors rather than lenses to gather and focus light, allowing for larger and more powerful telescopes to be built.
Reflecting telescopes are popular because they are generally more compact and can be built in larger sizes without the issues of chromatic aberration that affect refracting telescopes. They use mirrors instead of lenses, which allows for a simpler design and easier manufacturing of large apertures. Additionally, mirrors can be supported from behind, reducing the risk of distortion that occurs with heavy lenses. Overall, these advantages make reflecting telescopes more versatile and effective for astronomical observations.
One advantage of reflecting telescopes is that the mirrors can be very big. Large mirrors allow reflecting telescopes to gather more light than refracting telescopes do. Another advantage is that curved mirrors are polished on their curved side, which prevents light from entering the glass. Thus any flaws in the glass do not affect the light. A third advantage is that mirrors can focus all colors of light to the same focal point. Therefore, reflecting telescopes allow all colors of light from an object to be seen in focus at the same time.