Assertion: telescope's lens | /r/CapableOf | collect light
Facets:
value: from an image
type: OTHER
value: to a point
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to focus
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The front of this product has a large lens, and as the lens collects light, it beams it into the mirror that is positioned in the back of the telescope.
text: A big lens gathers the light and directs it to a focal point and a small lens brings the image to your eye.
text: A reflector telescope uses two mirrors instead of a lens to gather and focus light.
text: Newtonian r eflecting telescopes (often just called reflectors or newts) use a large mirror instead of a lens to capture light.
text: The objective lens (in refractors) or primary mirror (in reflectors) collects lots of light from a distant object and brings that light, or image, to a point or focus.
text: A telescope's ability to resolve small detail is directly related to the diameter (or aperture) of its objective (the primary lens or mirror that collects and focuses the light), and its light gathering power is related to the area of the objective.
text: Once the person looks into the eyepiece, a concave lens will gather and focus more light than the eye could so that a magnified image can be seen.
text: The larger the lens, the more light the telescope can gather.
text: The larger the objective lens, the more light the telescope can collect.
text: The objective lens or mirror collects light and brings it to focus creating an image.
text: The lens collects light from an image and bends this light into the telescope.
text: Reflecting telescopes use a huge concave parabolic mirror instead of a lens to gather and focus the light to a flat secondary mirror that in turn reflects the image out of an opening at the side of the main tube.