Meaning | optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece. |
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Synonym | reflecting telescope |
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Parts | parabolic mirror | A parabolic reflector for light radiation |
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Narrower | Cassegrainian telescope, Gregorian telescope | A reflecting telescope that has a paraboloidal primary mirror and a hyperboloidal secondary mirror |
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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 |
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Spanish | telescopio reflector |
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Catalan | reflector, telescopi reflector |
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