Question

What is a optical telescope

Answer 1

An Optical Telescope is a telescope that focuses and gathers light. It mainly gathers light from the visible or able to be seen part of the electromagnetic spectrum. These telescopes have a curved lens to magnify everything in sight. These are used for astronomy.

Answer 2

It is a telescope that gathers and focuses light.

Most people are only familiar with optical telescopes, that is telescopes that detect radiation in the visible spectrum.