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/rəflˈɛktɪŋ tˈɛləskˌoʊp/ Listen

Reflecting telescope

noun

Optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece. Synonym: reflector.

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... having become so proficient that he could seat twenty in a day if he chose, and in working in the little garden in spring, summer, and fall. Every evening he had studied the sky from his narrow yard, which resulted curiously in the gift in later years of a great reflecting telescope to a famous university. He had not looked upon himself as an ordinary prisoner, by any means—had not felt himself to be sufficiently punished if a real crime had been involved. From Bonhag he had learned the history of many criminals here incarcerated, from murderers ...

— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

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... of the garden was fully exposed to the public. The Computing Room was a most pitiful little room. There was so little room for me that I transported the principal table to a room in my house, where I conducted much of my own official business. A large useless reflecting telescope (Ramage's), on the plan and nearly of the size of Sir W. Herschel's principal telescope, encumbered the centre of the ...

— Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy • George Biddell Airy

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Words linked to "Reflecting telescope" : Newtonian reflector, Cassegrainian telescope, parabolic mirror, Schmidt camera, reflector, Herschelian telescope, Schmidt telescope, off-axis reflector, Maksutov telescope, Gregorian telescope, coude telescope, coude system, Newtonian telescope, optical telescope