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The three types of telescope available

The types of telescope explained are;-

Refractors

Newtonian Reflectors

Catadioptrics

I don't know anywhere near enough about the various types of telescope to do an explanation justice so I have cheated and copied text from a very informative website and their link is below;-

http://www.aoe.com.au/telescope_types.html 

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