reflecting_telescope (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *reflecting telescope*:
NOUN	artifact	reflecting telescope, reflector	optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece

English > *reflecting telescope*: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact
Meaning	optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece.
Example	"Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668"
Synonym	reflector
Parts	parabolic mirror	A parabolic reflector for light radiation
Narrower	Cassegrainian telescope, Gregorian telescope	A reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror
	Herschelian telescope, off-axis reflector	A reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed
	Maksutov telescope	reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens
	Newtonian telescope, Newtonian reflector	reflecting telescope in which the image is viewed through an eyepiece perpendicular to main axis
	Schmidt telescope, Schmidt camera	reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed
	coude telescope, coude system	A reflecting telescope so constructed that the light is led to a plate holder or spectrograph
Broader	optical telescope	An astronomical telescope designed to collect and record light from cosmic sources
Spanish	telescopio reflector
Catalan	reflector, telescopi reflector

HyperDic: reflecting_telescope