Galilean telescopes

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Refracting telescopes named after the telescope Galileo first constructed in 1609. Galilean telescopes are each designed with one convergent and one concave, or divergent, lens, with the divergent lens acting as the ocular lens, and the convergent lens as the objective lens that creates the image.
Galilean telescopes
Accepted term: 18-Nov-2024