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A reflecting telescope forms an image by using a combination of curved mirrors to focus light. It was invented as an alternative to the refracting telescope.

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What instruments use lenses or mirriors to collect and focus light from distant objects?

Telescopes use lenses or mirrors to collect and focus light from distant objects. The lenses or mirrors help to magnify the light and form an image that can be viewed by the observer.


What type of telescope minimizes color focus problems?

A telescope with achromatic lenses.


This telescope uses mirrors to gather and focus light energy?

Newtonian telescope


What do you call a telescope that uses a lens to focus light?

It is called a refracting telescope.


Does the Hubble Telescope use mirrors or lenses to focus the image?

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What is the name of the telescope that uses convex lenses to gather and focus light?

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Where is the focus of a refracting telescope?

The focus is between the two lenses, closer to the eyepiece


A telescope that uses a set of lenses to gather and focus light from distant objects?

Refracting Telescope.


What type of telescope uses lenses or mirror to gather and focus energy?

the reflecting telescope uses mirrors and lenses. The refracting telescope does not include the mirrors.


What of type telescope uses concave mirrors to focus light and form an image at the focal point?

A reflecting telescope.


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the reflecting telescope uses mirrors and lenses. The refracting telescope does not include the mirrors.