Instruction Manual: Starnavigator Series Reflecting and Refracting Telescopes
Instruction Manual: Starnavigator Series Reflecting and Refracting Telescopes
Instruction Manual: Starnavigator Series Reflecting and Refracting Telescopes
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Refracting Telescopes use a large objective lens as their primary light-collecting element. Meade
refractors, in all models and apertures, include achromatic (2-element) objective lenses in order to reduce
or virtually eliminate the false colour (chromatic aberration) that results in the telescopic image when light
passes through a lens.
Reflecting Telescopes use a concave primary mirror to collect light and form an image. In the Newtonian
type of reflector, light is reflected by a small, flat secondary mirror to the side of the main tube for
observation of the image.
In the refracting telescope, light is collected by a 2-element objective lens and brought to
focus at F.
In contrast, the reflecting telescope uses a concave mirror for this purpose.
F
Eyepiece
2-element
Objective Lens
F
Eyepiece
Concave
Mirror
Secondary
Mirror
Refracting Telescope
Reflecting Telescope
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