What is a terrestrial telescope and an astronomical telescope? - Vidyadip

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What is a terrestrial telescope and an astronomical telescope?

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Telescopes used to see the objects on the Earth, like mountains, trees, players playing a match in a stadium, etc. are called terrestrial telescopes.
In such case, the final image must be erect. Eye lens used for this purpose must be concave and such a telescope is popularly called a binocular.
Most of the binoculars use three convex lenses with proper separation. The image formed by second lens is inverted with respect to object. The third lens again inverts this image and makes final image erect with respect to the object.
An astronomical telescope is the telescope used to see the objects like planets, stars, galaxies, etc. In this case there is no necessity of erect image. Such telescopes use convex lens as eye lens.

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