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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]
What type of telescope does not use visual light energy?
Infrared the answer is a refracting telescope :p
Use refracting telescope in a sentence?
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Are lens part of a telescope?
-- A refracting telescope must have a lens, otherwise it's not a refracting telescope. -- A reflecting telescope can be constructed without any lens, but if you intend to look through it, then you'll use a little lens for the eyepiece.
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.
Telescopes that use lenses for focusing light are called what telescopes?
That telescope you are refering to is called a refracting telescope.
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
How does refracting telescope work?
it doesnt
Which type of telescope uses concave mirrors to increase the size of the image being viewed?
Refracting
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.
