Telescopes: Refracting, Use for Amateurs

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Apr 2003

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5538. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Amateur Astronomy, Education And Public Impact

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The REFRACTING TELESCOPE was invented by Lippershey in 1608 and first used astronomically by Galileo in 1610. Until the first achromatic lens was made by George Bass in 1733, astronomers developed telescopes of enormously long focal length in order to reduce the chromatic aberration of singlet lenses. Improvements in lens design and glass technology have resulted in a wide variety of refractors be...

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