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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?
Telescope.
Does the Hubble Telescope use mirrors or lenses to focus the image?
The Hubble Telescope uses both mirrors and lenses to focus on images.
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.
What is the name of the telescope that uses convex lenses to gather and focus light?
Refracting telescope.
What kind of telescope uses both a reflecting mirror and a refracting lens to produce wide angle photos of the sky?
A reflecting telescope has both magnifying mirrors and lenses to focus the image on the eyepiece. A refracting telescope uses only lenses to magnify and focus. A reflecting telescope can be much smaller, because the light can travel through the barrel of the telescope several times, being magnified with each reflection. This is why most large modern telescopes are reflectors.
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.
How is a radio telescope similar to a refracting telescope and a reflecting telescope?
They all collect and focus light and other forms of electromagnetic radation.
What was found to be out of focus after it was launched?
Hubble Space 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.
