can anyone help me to understand/info on a refractor telescope...answer for a young teen...please, thank you?

Question

I am helping a nephew with a project and want soime insight I can pass along, the origins or use of...thanks...or resource sites...

Answer 1

Here is a site that may help you with the information.

Answer 2

A refractor is like half a pair of binoculars. The light comes in the main lens in front and comes out the little lens in the eyepiece. In a reflector the light bounces off a curved mirror in the back of the telescope to the eyepiece lens on the front. All the big telescopes are reflectors.

Answer 3

This site explains about refractors:

http://hometown.aol.com/siriusbc/telescopes.htm

The site fails to mention that in apochromatic refractors, refractors that use multiple lenses to eliminate chromatic aberration, some of the lens elements (or lenses) are made not from glass, but a high quality synthetic fluorite, which is a mineral.

Answer 4

For $9 you can get a simple telescope kit along with documents explaining how it works. See the source.

Answer 5

Here are two links that explain telescopes in an easy-to-understand way. Especially the first link is very educational:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/telescope1.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refracting_telescope

Good luck!

Answer 6

http://www.astronomynotes.com/telescop/s2.htm

Answer 7

no, sorry