Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 3 compound words that contain telescopes. The most common are listed below. Open telescopes in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- optical telescopesplural of optical telescope: An instrument, used both for recreational and scientific purposes, which provides a magnified view of distant objects by collecting and focusing light by means of mirrors and/or optical lenses.
- radio telescopesplural of radio telescope: A device for observing astronomical sources of radio waves, normally having one or more large parabolic dishes.
- reflecting telescopesplural of reflecting telescope: A telescope which produces a magnified image by reflecting light through a series of mirrors housed in a tube, using a large curved mirror to gather the light and one or more additional mirrors to transmit …
- solar telescopesplural of solar telescope: A telescope designed to make observations of the sun.
- liquid mirror telescopesplural of liquid mirror telescope: A type of reflecting telescope employing a parabolic liquid mirror made by spinning a pool of reflective liquid.
- X-ray telescopesplural of X-ray telescope: An instrument that detects X-rays originating from outside the Earth's atmosphere.
- Schmidt telescopesplural of Schmidt telescope: A telescope, having a wide field of view, comprising a thin aspheric lens and a large concave mirror.
- terrestrial telescopesplural of terrestrial telescope: A telescope which, unlike most telescopes used for astronomical purposes, contains an arrangement of lenses presenting an erect (non-inverted) image to the observer, suitable for observation of objects on …
- transit telescopesplural of transit telescope: An astronomical telescope mounted in the meridian and turning on a fixed east-and-west axis.
- water telescopesplural of water telescope: A telescope in which the medium between the objective and the eyepiece is water instead of air, used in some experiments involving aberration.
- zenith telescopesplural of zenith telescope: A telescope that can point vertically at the zenith.
- Gregorian telescopesplural of Gregorian telescope: A type of reflecting telescope having two concave mirrors: the primary mirror (a paraboloid) collects the light and brings it to a focus before the secondary mirror (a ellipsoid), where it is reflected back …
- Newtonian telescopesplural of Newtonian telescope: A type of reflecting telescope using a concave primary mirror and a flat diagonal secondary mirror.
- Cassegrain telescopesplural of Cassegrain telescope: A telescope using a Cassegrain reflector.
- Keplerian telescopesplural of Keplerian telescope: An improvement on the Galilean telescope, having a convex lens as the eyepiece instead of Galileo's concave one.
- Galilean telescopesplural of Galilean telescope: a type of refracting telescope (refractor) similar to the one used by Galileo Galilei.
- Dobsonian telescopesplural of Dobsonian telescope: An alt-azimuth mounted Newtonian telescope; a type of reflecting telescope.
- Maksutov telescopesplural of Maksutov telescope: A catadioptric telescope with a meniscus corrector.
- refracting telescopesplural of refracting telescope: A telescope which produces a magnified image by refracting light through a series of lenses housed in a tube, with a light-gathering objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other.
- Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopesplural of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope: A catadioptric telescope that combines a Cassegrain reflector's optical path with a Schmidt corrector plate to make a compact astronomical instrument that uses simple spherical surfaces.
- Nasmyth telescopesplural of Nasmyth telescope: A kind of reflecting telescope: a modified Cassegrain telescope with light reflected sideways before reaching the primary mirror again.
- dialytic telescopesplural of dialytic telescope: An achromatic telescope in which the coloured dispersion produced by a single object lens of crown glass is corrected by a smaller concave lens, or combination of lenses, of high dispersive power, placed at a …
Compound words 3
- hypertelescopesplural of hypertelescope: Any of several proposed very large arrays of linked telescopes
- phototelescopesplural of phototelescope: A telescope adapted for taking photographs of the heavenly bodies.
- radiotelescopesplural of radiotelescope: A device for observing astronomical sources of radio waves, normally having one or more large parabolic dishes.