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What is a reflecting telescope?

What is a reflecting telescope? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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 the light to an eyepiece.
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A 10 inch reflecting telescope provides common optics for infrared and electro-optical sensors.
He made his reflecting telescope entirely on his own, some parts of it with tools that he made specifically for the purpose.
The school's Newtonian reflecting telescope gave hundreds of the pupils the chance to watch the transit live on a projected screen.
The Newtonian telescope is a type of reflecting telescope still in popular use.
In 1973 she built a reflecting telescope with a nine-inch mirror that she ground and polished herself.
Snap would orbit a three-mirror, 2-meter reflecting telescope in a high orbit over Earth's poles, circling the globe every week or 14 days.

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