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Refracting Telescope

Description
Two basic types
Refracting telescope
Uses a lens (called the objective) to bend (refract) the light to produce an image
Light converges at an area called the focus
The eyepiece is a second lens used to examine the image directly
Have an optical defect called chromatic aberration (color distortion)
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