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Refractor

Refractor is a light crop will mirror the system together. The world's first astronomical telescope is a Galilean refractor manufactured it for the use of convex lens. As the glass of different refractive index of light of different refractive telescope would have a serious difference, therefore, the subsequent use of compound refractive lens telescope as a lens, that is composed of two or more lenses to eliminate chromatic aberration (such as the United States Meade's ED series). According to the different optical path, Galileo refractor telescope and is divided into two Kepler telescope. The relative refraction telescope usually smaller caliber, that is, a long focal length, large-scale negative and thus higher resolution, more suitable to the astrometric do the work (such as measuring the location of stars, binary star angular distance, etc.).
Advantages:
Easy to use, manufacture simple.
Suitable for observing the moon, planets, binary star, especially for large aperture telescopes.
Compact structure, no additional maintenance costs.
Closed tube of air flow reduced the damage of image quality, while protecting the optical lens.
Easy handling, suitable for outdoor long-range observation.
War can be avoided imaging, high-contrast image quality.
Through achromatic design, can be very good to avoid the appearance of chromatic aberration.
Disadvantages:
Price than the Newton-type or high-style Green Card game.
The same caliber, the refracting telescope or more Newton-type card game Green heavier, longer and larger.
Due to restrictions on size, not suitable for observing deep space objects such as nebula and so on.
The shortcomings of coke is relatively small telescopes to refraction caused by the use of deep space objects appear filming more difficult.
In the achromatic design, from the color image will have a little more or less distortion.
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Telescope Mirror

What are telescope mirrors? Who was the first to make a telescope mirror? How are they shaped and why? What is a telescope mirror commonly made of and what makes it work? Can you make one yourself or is it better to buy one? If you have questions like these, then follow along as we take a closer look at the telescope mirror…

What Is A Telescope Mirror?

At the base of a reflector telescope is a primary mirror that’s used to gather and focus light. All celestial objects, including the planets, moon and Sun exert light rays that reach Earth in a parallel fashion. Because these light rays are parallel to each other, the reflector telescope’s mirror has a parabolic shape to focus the light rays back to a single point on the secondary telescope mirror.

The secondary telescope mirror is flat and reflects the light to a focal plane at the side of the top of the telescope tube in the simple Newtonian reflector design.

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Crayford Focuser

The Crayford Eyepiece Mount (CEM) or Crayford focuser was invented by John (“Jack”) Wall in England. The name “Crayford” comes from the Crayford Manor House Astronomical Society (UK) to which he belongs.

The Crayford design moves the focuser drawtube by applying high pressure on a metal drive shaft that in turn presses against a flat surface machined into the metal focuser drawtube. The drawtube is held in place by sets of bearings on the opposite side of the drawtube from the drive shaft. This direct metal-to-metal and surface-to-surface drive mechanism eliminates the problems found in the rack-and-pinion focusers found on many telescopes, such as backlash, gear slop, and side to side shifting of the drawtube as the focus knob is turned.

The Crayford design allows for very fine adjustments, with tolerances up to 100 times better than conventional rack-and-pinion focusers. Its zero image shift and zero backlash makes it outstanding for visual and photographic work and a must for CCD imaging.

JMI recognized the benefits of this design and was the first company to bring it to the amateur market in a commercial product. Many telescope accessory companies have used the design for add-on focusers since JMI first adopted it and it is now being incorporated into many telescopes as standard equipment, as well.

The illustration shows one of Jack Wall’s original design drawings for the first Crayford focuser.

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