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What are the Different Types of Optical Telescopes?

What are the Different Types of Optical Telescopes?

Update: 2021-10-09
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Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope


Refracting (Refractor) Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refracting_telescope


Reflecting (Reflector) Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_telescope


Catadioptric Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catadioptric_system


Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (extra telescopes that give examples of catadioptric telescopes) - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt%E2%80%93Cassegrain_telescope


Dobsonian Telescope (type of Newtonian telescope) - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonian_telescope


Telescope Focal Length - starlust


https://starlust.org/telescope-focal-length/


Achromatic Lens - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatic_lens


Apochromatic Lens - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apochromat


Gregorian Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_telescope


Newtonian Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_telescope


Petzval Field Curvature - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petzval_field_curvature


Comatic Aberration - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_(optics)


Distortion - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distortion_(optics)


Schmidt Corrector Plate - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_corrector_plate


Ritchey-Chrétien Telescope - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchey%E2%80%93Chr%C3%A9tien_telescope


Telecompressor (Focal Reducer) - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecompressor


Barlow Lens - Wikipedia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlow_lens

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What are the Different Types of Optical Telescopes?

What are the Different Types of Optical Telescopes?

William Gottemoller