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  2. List of largest optical refracting telescopes - Wikipedia

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    List of largest optical refracting telescopes. The Grande Coupole for the double refractor of Meudon, with roughly 83 cm (33 in) and 62 cm (24 in) aperture lenses on the same mounting, and making its debut in 1891. Refracting telescopes use a lens to focus light. The Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, with a lens diameter of 43 inches, is technically ...

  3. Refracting telescope - Wikipedia

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    Refracting telescope. A refracting telescope (also called a refractor) is a type of optical telescope that uses a lens as its objective to form an image (also referred to a dioptric telescope). The refracting telescope design was originally used in spyglasses and astronomical telescopes but is also used for long-focus camera lenses.

  4. Great refractor - Wikipedia

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    Great refractor refers to a large telescope with a lens, usually the largest refractor at an observatory with an equatorial mount. The preeminence and success of this style in observational astronomy defines an era in modern telescopy [ 1] in the 19th and early 20th century. [ 1] Great refractors were large refracting telescopes using ...

  5. Meudon Great Refractor - Wikipedia

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    Meudon Great Refractor (also known as the Grande Lunette) is a double telescope with lenses (83 cm + 62 cm), in Meudon, France. It is a twin refracting telescope built in 1891, with one visual and one photographic, on a single square-tube together on an equatorial mount, inside a dome. The Refractor was built for the Meudon Observatory, and is ...

  6. Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900 - Wikipedia

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    The Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900, with an objective lens of 1.25 m (49 in) in diameter, was the largest refracting telescope ever constructed. It was built as the centerpiece of the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900. Its construction was instigated in 1892 by François Deloncle (1856–1922), a member of the French Chambre des ...

  7. Bamberg-Refraktor - Wikipedia

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    Bamberg-Refraktor. /  52.4575°N 13.3511°E  / 52.4575; 13.3511. The Bamberg-Refraktor is a large telescope. The refracting telescope has an aperture of 320 millimetres, a focal length of five metres and is located in the Wilhelm Foerster Observatory in the Berlin district of Schöneberg . The name "Bamberg" goes back to the builder of ...

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