What Are Telescopes and Its Benefit?
A telescope “telescope” is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects. The term usually refers to optical telescopes, but there are telescopes for most of the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and for other signal types. An optical telescope is an optical tool that gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation. Telescopes increase the apparent angular size of distant objects, as well as their apparent brightness. Telescopes work by employing one or more curved optical elements – lenses or mirrors – to gather light or other electromagnetic radiation and bring that light or radiation to a focus, where the image can be observed, photographed or studied. Optical telescopes are used for astronomy and in many non-astronomical instruments.
The main purpose of a telescope is to gather light, i.e. to collect and focus photons. We can think of a telescope then as a “light bucket” – the bigger the bucket, the more photons a telescope can collect.
Types of telescopes:
There are three basic types of telescopes — Refractors, Newtonian reflectors, and Catadioptrics.
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