For the first time, a flat telescope lens has been produced that represents colors accurately, offering a way to make less ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

an additional lens is added to turn the image right side up. This one simple change from Kepler allowed for considerably higher magnification, and the majority of refracting telescopes are ...

Designers of refracting telescopes figured out, for one, that by using two different kinds of glass together in the objective lens, they could cause the red and blue ends of the spectrum to ...

It was soon realized that what was to become known as chromatic aberration was a limiting factor in refracting telescopes, and that this could be overcome by making lenses with longer focal length ...

These refracting telescopes were quite popular and often ... Ultimately mostly correct, he proved that lenses refract light to a focal point but that different wavelengths refract differently.

This 82mm/3.2-inch refractor is one of a kind in that ... an image of the moon by holding your smartphone's camera lens up to a telescope's eyepiece, you'll know it's a tricky maneuver.

The original instrument to occupy the 25-foot diameter dome was the 10.5-inch Bausch refracting telescope (f/15.5) installed in the brand new observatory in 1953. Bausch & Lomb Company gave the ...

The second floor consists of the Equatorial Room which is home to the star of McKim Observatory: a Clark Refracting Telescope with a 9.53” objective lens made by the renown Alvin Clark and Sons. The ...

9.53 inch Clark Refractor The main telescope is the original 9.53 inch refractor built in 1885. The objective lens was made by Alvin Clark and Sons of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has a focal length ...