Refracting Telescope - Notable Refracting Telescopes

Notable Refracting Telescopes

  • Great Paris Exhibition Telescope of 1900 (1.25 m, 49 in)
  • Yerkes Observatory (102 cm, 40 in)
  • Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (98 cm, 39 in)
  • Lick Observatory (91 cm, 36 in)
  • Paris Observatory (83 cm, 33 in, + 62 cm, 24 in)
  • Nice Observatory (76 cm, 30 in)
  • Archenhold Observatory - the longest refracting telescope ever built (68 cm, 27 in, x 21 m, 68 ft, focal length)
  • Lowell Observatory (61 cm, 24 in)
  • Chabot Space & Science Center (51 cm, 20 in, + 20 cm, 8 in)
  • Dearborn Observatory (47 cm, 18.5 in)
  • Griffith Observatory (30 cm, 12 in)
  • Galileoscope (5 cm, 2 in)

  • The Great Refractor at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, Germany.

  • The 76 cm refractor at Nice Observatory.

  • The Great Refractor at the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin.

  • The 68 cm refractor at the Vienna University Observatory.

  • 20-inch (51 cm) refractor at the Observatories at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California.

  • 8-inch (20 cm) refractor at the Observatories at Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, California.

  • Refractor at the Observatory in Aachen, Germany.

  • diagram of a commercial refractor

  • Apochromatic refractor

  • The Alvan Clark Refractor Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ.

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