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What is the lens that is the larger lens in a refracting telescope?
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∙ 12y ago
The "objective" lens (as opposed to the eyepiece).
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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.
How are reflecting and retracting telescopes different?
A reflecting telescope is different from a refracting telescope because a reflecting telescope uses a concave lens, a plane mirror, and a convex lens. While a refracting telescope uses two lens.
How does a refracting telescope differ from other types of telescopes?
A refracting telescope is a type of telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image. This is different from other type of telescopes because it has a objective lens.
What is the main optical element of a refracting telescope?
lens
What uses a large glass lens?
A refracting telescope.
What do you call a telescope that uses a lens to focus light?
It is called a refracting telescope.
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.
What makes the Hubble telescope from the other telescope?
the hubble telescope is a refracting telescope and it is the biggest one because the refracting telescope can only have a certain range of size for the glass lens because it can only hang on the telescope and it is aproximently 5 meters big the lens. hope it helped
Why the objective lens of a refracting telescope is much larger than the objective lens of a compound microscope?
A telescope must grasp the light from enormous distances. A microscope's task is to refine tiny images at very close distances.
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.
What is a convex lens that focuses light to form an image at the focal point?
A magnifying lens. In a Refracting Telescope, a convex lens focuses light to form an image at the focal point.
What was the two lenses called on the refracting telescope?
Front lens - objective Back lens - eyepiece
