reflecting telescope

noun

1. a type of telescope in which the initial image is formed by a concave mirror Also calledreflector Compare refracting telescope

reflecting telescope

/ rĭ-flĕk′tĭng /

1. See under telescope

Example Sentences

In a reflecting telescope the image is magnified by a curved mirror, while in a refracting telescope it is magnified by passing through a lens.

From Literature

With a field of view far greater than that of an equivalent reflecting telescope, Dragonfly promises to capture the dim glow of vast, tenuous gas clouds that hold clues to the universe’s unseen dark matter.

From Science Magazine

A latch to open the top when it stopped moving, and I was ready to attach the plastic tube — and make the longest, and last, reflecting telescope in history.

From Nature

As a child, he built model airplanes and spent days constructing a reflecting telescope.

From Washington Post

He observed the object using a 60-inch reflecting telescope located atop Mt Lemmon in the Santa Catalina mountains outside Tucson, Arizona.

From Salon