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What does a telescope reflect?

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A reflecting telescope is an optical telescope which uses mirrors to bring the light to a focus. The first one was designed by Isaac newton.

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Er, well, it's a mirror that's in a telescope. Newtonian reflectors have one parabolic primary mirror and a flat secondary mirror. The primary focuses the light and sends it back toward the entrance; the secondary bounces it out the side to the eyepiece. Cassegrain telescopes have a parabolic primary and a negative focal length (convex) secondary, which directs the signal back through a hole in the center of the primary. Reflector telescopes can be even more complicated than that. The mirrors typically are glass overcoated with aluminum, but could be other materials. For example, they could be polished metal. Beryllium is often used for fancy systems because it is light, stiff, and thermally conductive. It's usually coated with some other metal because of the health hazards that come from polishing beryllium directly.

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There are two basic optical designs-- Refractors, which use solid glass lenses to focus the light, Reflectors, which use (mainly) reflecting mirrors to focus light. Many design variables determine whether refractors or reflectors are the best choice, but for very big astronomical telescopes, reflectors are always much cheaper.

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Reflecting telescopes use one or more curved mirrors to reflect light to form an image.

Not all telescopes reflect light, some refract it. To magnify an object, a telescope uses a convex lens on the larger side to bend the light inward. Then, a concave lens, where you put your eye, straightens the light, so that the amount of light coming in the larger end is shrunk, in area, to the size of your eye or pupil. This works the same way as a microscope.

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For large astronomical telescopes, reflecting telescopes are more common. Among ALL telescopes, refracting telescopes predominate. For example, a pair of binoculars, a small spyglass or the scope of a hunting rifle are refracting telescopes, and these vastly outnumber the reflecting astronomical telescopes.

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The image travels down the length of the telescope, and falls on to the large reflecting mirror at the base. It's reflected back up the tube, where it strikes a second mirror usually placed at 45 degrees. This sends the image at a right-angle out of the main tube towards the eyepiece.

If you check the related link - and scroll down to about half-way through the article, there's a diagram (the Newtonian telescope) showing you the set-up I've described.

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A reflecting telescope is one type of optical telescope. It is used in the "optical" range of light, which is the range we see in. The other type of optical telescope is the refractor (lenses).

A reflecting or reflector telescope uses mirrors as its objective to form an image. The reflecting telescope design was used originally for astronomical telescopes and is widely considered to be an invention of Isaac newton. The specific design used by Newton has consequently been named Newton telescope, or Newtonian telescope. There are also other types of reflector telescopes, such as the Schmidt-Cassegrain reflector telescope, or a simpler design often used by amateur telescope makers (ATMs) called a Dobsonian.

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the prime focus is the simplest.

Prime focus reflector

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A reflecting telescope is an optical telescope which uses mirrors to bring the light to a focus. The first one was designed by Isaac Newton.

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A reflecting telescope uses mirrors to reflect an image.

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