why does my telescope show images upside down?

Question

all images are upside down including the images in the spotting scope

Answer 1

A telescope lens, like your eyeball, inverts the image. You can find reference material on how light waves behave when they pass through a lens by doing a search. The light rays converge inside the telescope, spread apart again, and hit the primary mirror (in the case of a reflector telescsope). Your brain automatically turns the upside down image on the back of your eye right side up. You can buy an attachment for your telescope that does this too. However, for sharpness, the less lens glass the light has to go through, the better, so you sacrifice the rights side up view for sharpness of image. By the way, my Matsukov-Cassegrain scope doesn't flip the image upside down, it is flipped horizontal.

Answer 2

Telescope made up of two lens ; both are convex lens(as they're converging lens) If the images that you see is upside down means that the image is inverted which is normal to any telescope. As telescope was invented to see extremely a distance thing such as stars and planets. Actually, every telescope on earth will show the planets or stars in inverted images. So don't worry. P/S : I would like to explain in science terms but I'm afraid it's complicated to understand if you don't have basic knowledge in "Physic's Optic"

Answer 3

This result is like the result you get when you take a picture on a camera. If you look inside a camera and put a strip of the film up to a light you'll notice that the image is upside down and backwords. When a machine develops the photo it changes the images size and appearance. Your eyes do the same thing when you look at an image at first your eyes see it upside-down but when your brain scans the image, it turns the image rightside-up. The reason you don't notice it is because your brain picks up wavelenghts and transmits them faster than the speed of sound.

I think the telescope is like a camera picking up an image and it also depend on where you are on earth and the position of the rotation.

Answer 4

Optics - microscopes and telescopes all invert the image because if they didnt, it would
mean that another lens had to be added, increasing money cost. A lens is convex on both
sides. That means the middle is thicker than the edges. A microscope or telescope has two
lenses (basically).
The objective lens (usually larger and closer to the specimen or object) which allows the
image of the object to be reduced to a smaller workable image inside the scope.
This image is inverted inside the scope. It is also too small to see with the eye, so you
need another lens, the eyepiece. The eyepiece focus's your eye on the image and magnifies
it so you can see it. Every lens has a focal length, the point at which the image is formed
away from the surface of the lens.

Answer 5

Astronomical telescopes do show upside down images. It takes an extra lens to turn the image right side up, and since that doesn't really matter when looking at things in the sky, telescopes intended for astronomy usually omit the extra lens.

Answer 6

Your telescope, a reflecting telescope, has two smirrors. Therefore, it is showing images upside down. But, it is not necessary to view space right-side-up.
In a terrestrial telescope, or a set of binoculars, another mirror is added just for the sake of viewing it properly.

Answer 7

The objective lens or mirror makes an upside down image.
To that image you look at with the ocular (= magnifying glass) that does not turn over the image.

Answer 8

It is because ur geting an Inverted virtual image it is basic principle on which telescope work dont worry.For more ask ur physics sir or madam.
Search on google how telescope work.

Answer 9

You're right they are. However there is no upside down in space, therefore it doesn't matter.

Answer 10

Its because of the mirors inside it, the light and image has to be a reflection or else you could damage your eyes