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3. Reflecting Telescopes
4. Refracting Telescopes
History
• Hans Lippershey Middleburg, Holland
– invented the refractor telescope in 1608
• Galileo
– the first to use a telescope in astronomy. Galileo's
designs used a combination of convex and concave
lenses.
• Kepler
– improved the design to have two convex lenses,
which made the image upside-down. Kepler's design
is still the major design of refractors today, with a few
later improvements in the lenses and the glass to
make them.
Why can’t you see an object that
is far away?
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When you combine the objective lens or
primary mirror with the eyepiece, you have
a telescope.
Again, the basic idea is to collect lots of light
to form a bright image inside the
telescope, and then use something like a
magnifying glass to magnify (enlarge) that
bright image so that it takes up a lot of
space on your retina.
A telescope has two general
properties
Set of filters for viewing, including a light pollution filter (left) and
colored filters for enhancing contrast in planetary images.
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