Reflecting Telescopes

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2761. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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All the earliest optical telescopes were REFRACTORS, using lenses to form an image; they date back to at least 1608. Since light of different wavelengths is bent or `refracted' unequally as it passes through glass, a refractor always gives a certain amount of false color round an image such as that of a star. Light of whatever color is however reflected in the same direction, so a ...

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