Refractor Telescopes for newbies

Refractor TelescopesIn the simple sense refractor telescopes are those that use lenses as their objectives rather than mirrors and were the first type of telescopes, the type you can imagine Galileo using. They were first developed in the early 1600's in Holland before Galileo made his own version and made it the well known instrument we still use today.The goal contact lens (the main one in the front of the setting) flexes mild sun light towards a focal point exactly where we could look at the image with an eyepiece. Your rounding about of light sun light that way is known as refraction, and

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