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What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Telescope

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The refractor telescope has many advantages and disadvantages. One of the disadvantages is that the lenses are made of glasses therefore it has to be perfect with no air bubbles or scratches in the glass as this will impair the users viewing. Another disadvantage is that lense are weakest around the edges because they are thinnest there and that is the only place they are being supported by the telescope so this can lead to easy breakage. The lense can have colour distortion which means when white light goes through the lense it is split into colours. Since violet right is refracted more than red, the violet is brought to a focus clearer and this will make the image coloured and blurred, this is called chromatic aberration. Some advantages …show more content…

The light enters through the objective lense and meets at a focal point. That is then magnified through an eyepiece where we see the image. The effects of light passing through lenses are different depending on which lense it is passed through. Double convex lenses works by refracting light rays that are travelling parallel to the principal axis towards the normal surface. When it hits the boundary the light is passing to a more dense medium which is usually glass or plastic. Since the light rays are passing from a medium that it travels fast in to a medium that they travel slow in, it will bend towards the normal line. Which is shown on this diagram. An image is formed in a refracting telescope because the first lense (objective lense) is convex and when the light travels through the lense because the surface is transparent the light travels through the lense and meets a focal point on the other side to create an image that is real, magnified(compared to when viewing with the naked eye) and inverted because the image is formed by real rays that refract and go through the lense instead of reflecting like a mirror. For example if an astronomer is looking at the moon through a refractor telescope the image he will see is real but smaller. The eyepiece lense is also inverted (convex) because this allows the image to be ‘inverted’ again so it is the right way up for our eyes to see. This formula lets us find the distance of image1/f=1/do+1/di. An example of using this formula is if a 4 cm object is placed 12 cm in front with a focal length of 8cm. 1/f=1/do+1/di, ⅛=1/12+1/di, ⅛-1/12 =1/di, 1/24=1/di, di = 24 this equation allows us to find the distance of

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