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Telescope Parts

When you happen to buy a telescope at a retail store at that same time the telescope has all the parts that are required for it to be completely operational. But if it happens to be that you are thinking on the lines of assembling a telescope all by your self the there are various parts that you would have collect in order to get started and make a the piece completely operational.

And there is no harm at all if you have the knowledge of what part are there in a telescope irrespective of the fact that you are a user or looking to build one.

Acquaintance with the ingredient of a telescope solely rests on the kind of telescope that is to be built. Of the many kinds of telescopes the two most common ones are telescopes with refracting features where it bends the light & the other is a telescope with reflecting features where it reflects light.

Certainly there are a few components that are the same for all telescopes, and there are a few that are vastly different from one and another.

Both of the above 2 telescopes have lenses that are housed in a tube that are essential for the functioning of any telescope. There is also a base on which the complete telescope unit sits on which is attached to the mounting section that is there for stability.

Both of the above 2 telescopes will have an eyepiece which is necessary for seeing any kind of images. From hereon the telescopes start to grow dissimilar about which you should know equally.

The telescope of a refractor type shall have 2 different lens types. The first lens is the primary lens that happens to be of a larger size while the second lens happens to be a little tinier as compared to the primary lens.

Both of them are placed within the tubing & adjustments are required to be made so as to allow for the adjusted so that even the smallest of objects are larger in appearance than they actually are. There is an adjustable knob or something in a telescope of refracting type so that objects can be clearly seen.

For a telescope of reflecting kind, the required components are quite different. The telescope of reflecting kind needs a principal lens so as to enlarge objects, the secondary lens is not required as the secondary part, there exists a mirror, which shall provide the image through the lens for you seeing & then invert it.

Telescope of reflecting kind mostly have inbuilt components which make inversion possible so that when you happen to look at them while looking through your eyepiece they appear in the right manner.

One of the other parts you would like to know about especially if you are opting to build the telescope yourself if the camera that can be fitted on the eyepiece of the telescope. This function shall allow you to grab photographs of the object you admire in the sky above you.

So we know now that some of these parts for telescope are usually the same.

 
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