reflecting telescope

British  

noun

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

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reflecting telescope Scientific  

/ rĭ-flĕk′tĭng /

1. See under telescope

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Example Sentences

In 1969, Carnegie opened Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, replete with a 100-inch reflecting telescope of its own.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

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 • May 21, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2018

The first successful reflecting telescope was built by Isaac Newton in 1668.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Or perhaps Mai's family had an apartment with a roof- deck that housed an amateur self-constructed observatory with a shockingly powerful reflecting telescope.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan