Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

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There are three basic types of telescope: reflectors, refractors and catadioptric. We'll go into each type in detail below, ...

The standard telescope of Newton's time, the refracting telescope, was not ideal. Its glass lenses focused the different colors inherent in light at different distances. This resulted, at the ...

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Subsequent observers took the design of glass-lensed, refracting telescopes to great lengths, sometimes literally so. In Danzig, Johannes Hevelius deployed a telescope 150 feet long; hung by ropes ...

McKim Observatory still houses many of its original instruments, including a 9.53 inch Clark Refractor telescope, a meridian transit telescope, and a gravity driven chronograph. Missing from the early ...

We spoke with three experts to figure out which are the best telescopes and astronomy equipment for stargazing.

If you're new to stargazing, figuring out the best telescope for beginners to buy can be tricky. This article is here to fill you in on what to look for, and make sense of some of the jargon ...

a tube of stacked magnifying lenses we'd recognize as a refracting telescope, with which to look deep into the night sky. However, Galileo's telescopes suffered from high chromatic aberration ...

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Both the Celestron 21039 PowerSeeker 50AZ and National Geographic Refractor Telescope 60/700 AZ will let you seek out the stars, even if you're brand new to stargazing. But which will handle and ...