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How does diffraction affect the image produced by a telescope?
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Diffraction occurs even in the best telescopes. The appearance of a star should be a dot with any amount of magnification, but under high magnification the star appears as a small disk with circular rings round it. The diameter of the disk does not indicate the size of the star but the size of the telescope's main lens, and a larger lens gives a smaller disk.
Diffraction places a limit on the telescope's ability to separate the images of close double stars. The cloeset double stars can be viewed only with the largest telescopes.
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What telescope using lenses to make an image?
The reflecting telescope
Does a reflecting telescope produce an upright image?
The most common type of reflecting telescope produces an inverted image. However, it's possible for a reflecting telescope to produce an upright image, depending on exactly how the optics are arranged.
What type of telescope that uses only lenses to collect light to form a image?
simplest possible telescope
What is a telescope that uses an object lens to bend light toward the plane where the image is found?
reflecting telescope
Why does a space telescope produce a clearer image then an earth based telescope?
There is less dust in space than earth.
Is the image produced by a radio telescope the same as the image produced by a optical telescope?
no you cant see image its appers in waves
Does a eyepiece of a telescope have a lens?
A telescope eyepiece usually has 2 lenses in an astronomical telescope, and it is designed to give a magnified view of the virtual image produced at the focal point of the main lens.
What type of lens does a reflecting telescope use?
A reflecting telescope only uses lenses in the eyepiece. Light is picked up and an image produced by using a concave parabolic mirror.
What telescope using lenses to make an image?
The reflecting telescope
A telescope that uses a system of lenses to produce an image?
Reflecting Telescope
Does a reflecting telescope produce an upright image?
The most common type of reflecting telescope produces an inverted image. However, it's possible for a reflecting telescope to produce an upright image, depending on exactly how the optics are arranged.
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.
How many times bigger does the image appear in a refracting telescope?
That will depend on your telescope power.
What type of image is formed by reflecting telescope?
the images are clear and can be focused unlike a refracting telescope witch sags under its own weight causing images to be distortedAny telescope forms a real image. Otherwise, it's pretty useless as a telescope.Comments: Refracting telescopes are good these days. They should not sag. Also, Galileo's telescope formed a virtual image, and that wasn't useless.An important point about the image in a reflecting telescope is that it is inverted, as well as being a real image.
What type of telescope that uses only lenses to collect light to form a image?
simplest possible telescope
What type of image is formed by a refracting telescope -?
an enlarged, upside-down virual image.
How did the reflecting telescope improve your life?
Image is everything.
