What is the primary purpose of a telescope?

Answer 1

To collect visible light emitted / reflected / scattered from a distant body, and increase the apparent size (or at least the intensity) of the image specularly, so that features can be discerned / observed.

Answer 2

The purpose of a telescope is to function like an eye with a pupil many feet in diameter, so as to collect enough
light from a dim, distant object to be able to see it with a normal eye or camera, and to be able to magnify it
if necessary, without dimming the image below the sensitivity threshold of those devices.

Answer 3

The primary purpose of a telescope is to gather and magnify light from distant objects in space, allowing us to see them more clearly and in greater detail than with the naked eye. Telescopes are essential tools for astronomers to observe celestial bodies and phenomena.

Answer 4

To focus the telescope's image so it can enter the eye or the focal plane of a camera.

Answer 5

The purpose of a telescope is to have a magnified view of objects. (especially a better view of outer space)

Answer 6

To be able to view the cosmos in greater detail.