A rickety refracting telescope followed, as did involvement with the Edmonton chapter of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. |
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This simple refracting telescope is still used in modern opera glasses, which are low-powered binoculars. |
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The Dominion Observatory building was completed in 1905 with the main instrument, the refracting telescope, observing for the first time on April 17th. |
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One of his first projects was to construct a refracting telescope. |
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From this work he concluded that any refracting telescope would suffer from the dispersion of light into colours. |
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From these experiments Newton concluded that no improvement could be made in the refracting telescope. |
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Clark Family, American family of telescope makers and astronomers who supplied unexcelled lenses to many observatories in the United States and Europe during the heyday of the refracting telescope. |
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In 1666, Isaac Newton argued that the faults of the refracting telescope were fundamental because the lens refracted light of different colors differently. |
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