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The most important part of a telescope is the telescope tube. Other parts are the viewfinder or optical finderscope, eyepiece, focuser, reflecting mirrors, refracting lenses, and the mount assembly.

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A telescope can be very useful, to look at the starts at night. The parts of a telescope are the optical tube, lenses, eyepiece, counterweight, mount, dew caps, tube rings, and focuser

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to look at things

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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.


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?

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Is a telescope with incoming light passing through glass refracting?

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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.


Who invented telescope?

HANS LIPPERSHEY INVENTED REFRACTING TELESCOPE.


Did Galileo invent the reflecting or the refracting telescope?

no


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DUTCH


What other things were developed using the refracting telescope design?

the reflecting telescope was!!


A refracting telescope in a type of what telescope?

One that you look through, rather than into.