Optical telescope

An optical telescope is a telescope which is used to gather, and focus light, for directly viewing a magnified image, making a photograph, etc. The term is used especially for a monocular with static mounting for observing the sky. Handheld binoculars are common for other purposes.

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Telescope - Focus - Light - Magnified - Photograph - Monocular - Binoculars

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Telescopes are sometimes referred to as "photon buckets" as they are used to "collect streams of photons". There are two primary types of optical telescope: reflectors (which use mirrors) and refractors (which use lenses). In addition there are compound telescopes such as the Maksutov telescope and the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.

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Photon - Reflectors - Mirror - Refractors - Lenses - Maksutov telescope - Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope

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