{"id":32,"date":"2011-04-02T17:06:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T17:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=32"},"modified":"2011-05-03T01:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T01:35:13","slug":"refracting-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Refracting Telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>re\u00b7fract \u00a0(r<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.tfd.com\/hm\/GIF\/ibreve.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"absbottom\" \/>-fr<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.tfd.com\/hm\/GIF\/abreve.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"absbottom\" \/>kt<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.tfd.com\/hm\/GIF\/prime.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"absbottom\" \/>)<\/p>\n<div><em>tr.v.<\/em> <strong>re\u00b7fract\u00b7ed<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>re\u00b7fract\u00b7ing<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>re\u00b7fracts<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>1. <\/strong>To deflect (light, for example) from a straight path by refraction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>See <a href=\"http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/hbase\/geoopt\/refr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Refraction of Light<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmm.ac.uk\/explore\/astronomy-and-time\/astronomy-facts\/instruments\/telescopes\">Refracting telescopes<\/a> use convex lenses to gather light. \u00a0The lenses refract (bend)\u00a0the light to bring it into focus. \u00a0The lens is thicker in the center than it is at its edges. \u00a0This means that the light bends more at the edges, sending to toward a central focus point. \u00a0The point of focus is where the image is created.<\/p>\n<p>The Yerkes 40-inch refractor is the largest refracting telescope in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>re\u00b7fract \u00a0(r-frkt) tr.v. re\u00b7fract\u00b7ed,\u00a0re\u00b7fract\u00b7ing,\u00a0re\u00b7fracts&nbsp; 1. To deflect (light, for example) from a straight path by refraction. See Refraction of Light. Refracting telescopes use convex lenses to gather light. \u00a0The lenses refract (bend)\u00a0the light to bring it into focus. \u00a0The lens is thicker in the center than it is at its edges. \u00a0This means that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-telescopes","category-terminology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}