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reflector telescope

(reflecting telescope, reflector)
(telescope using mirrors rather than lenses to magnify)

A reflector telescope or reflecting telescope is a telescope that uses curved reflecting surfaces to magnify the signal rather than lenses (a refracting telescope) or other apparatus. The term is generally used for telescopes with mirrors that observe visible light or ultraviolet or near infrared, but others (such as radio telescopes) also include types that fit the definition, reflecting their radiation analogously. Isaac Newton built an early (visible-light) example, perhaps the first. Various mirror configurations are given "telescope type" names:

Other criteria are also used:

Examples range from small amateur telescopes to the largest optical telescopes:


(telescope type)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_telescope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflecting_telescopes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telescope_types#List_of_optical_telescope_types
https://www.britannica.com/science/optical-telescope/Reflecting-telescopes
https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/reflecting.html

Referenced by pages:
anastigmat
Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT)
ASTHROS
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT)
Cassegrain reflector
CHARA
chromatic aberration
COAST
collecting area
coudé focus telescope
Dall-Kirkham telescope
Darwin
David Dunlap Observatory Catalog (DDO)
Dragone telescope
ESO 3.6m Telescope
European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO VLT)
feedhorn
focal plane
fold mirror
Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC)
Gregorian telescope
GUSTO
Hale Telescope
Herschelian telescope
Hiltner Telescope
Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET)
Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT)
Isaac Newton Telescope (INT)
Keck Observatory
Korsch telescope
Kuiper Airborne Observatory (KAO)
LAMOST
Large Altazimuth Telescope (BTA-6)
Large Binocular Telescope (LBT)
Large Zenith Telescope (LZT)
Lick Observatory
liquid mirror telescope
Liverpool Telescope (LT)
Magellan Telescopes
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Mayall 4m Telescope
Mercator Telescope
mirror support cell
monolithic mirror
Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO)
Narrabri Stellar Intensity Interferometer (NSII)
Nasmyth telescope
New Technology Telescope (NTT)
Newtonian telescope
off-axis telescope
optical axis
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL)
Palomar 60-inch Telescope (P60)
paraboloid
PRIMA
primary mirror
prime focus
radio telescope
Rapid Eye Mount Telescope (REM)
refracting telescope
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope (RCT)
Rubin Observatory (VRO)
Schiefspiegler
Schmidt camera
Schmidt-Newton telescope (SNT)
Schwarzschild telescope
segmented mirror
Shane Telescope
Sloan 2.5m Telescope
SOAR Telescope (SOAR)
Southern African Large Telescope (SALT)
STUDIO
Subaru Telescope
SuperBIT
Table Mountain Observatory (TMO)
telescope type
Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG)
three-mirror anastigmat
USNO
Víctor M. Blanco Telescope
VISTA
VLT Survey Telescope (VST)
William Herschel Telescope (WHT)
WIYN 3.5m Telescope
Wolter telescope
Yolo telescope

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