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.
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.
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