Assertion: telescope's mirror | /r/CapableOf | bounce light
Facets:
value: to an eyepiece
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: like the cassegrain reflector
type: OTHER
value: by reflecting it
type: MANNER
value: together
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Invented in the 1960s, it has a secondary mirror that bounces light through a hole in the primary mirror to an eyepiece.
text: The mirrors bend light together by reflecting it rather than bending it as lenses do.
text: The light enters the tube and reflects off a curved mirror (called the primary mirror) at the other end, before bouncing back up the tube to near the top where it reflects off a smaller mirror (called the secondary mirror), which bounces the light out of a hole in the side of the telescope where you attach your eyepiece.
text: Like the Cassegrain reflector, a secondary mirror bounces light through a hole in the primary mirror to the eyepiece.