Mirrors and lenses are the critical light-bending components of a telescope.
* Objective: The first lens or curved mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light.
* Primary lens: The objective of a refracting telescope.
* Primary mirror: The objective of a reflecting telescope.
* Corrector plate: A full aperture negative lens placed before a primary mirror designed to correct the optical aberrations of the mirror.
* Schmidt corrector plate: An aspheric-shaped corrector plate used in the Schmidt telescope.
* Meniscus corrector: A meniscus-shaped corrector plate usually used in the Maksutov telescope.
* Focusing mask: A full aperture mask temporarily placed before the primary mirror to aid in focusing the telescope.
* Bahtinov mask
* Carey mask
* Hartmann mask
* Sub-aperture
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| - Mirrors and lenses are the critical light-bending components of a telescope.
* Objective: The first lens or curved mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light.
* Primary lens: The objective of a refracting telescope.
* Primary mirror: The objective of a reflecting telescope.
* Corrector plate: A full aperture negative lens placed before a primary mirror designed to correct the optical aberrations of the mirror.
* Schmidt corrector plate: An aspheric-shaped corrector plate used in the Schmidt telescope.
* Meniscus corrector: A meniscus-shaped corrector plate usually used in the Maksutov telescope.
* Focusing mask: A full aperture mask temporarily placed before the primary mirror to aid in focusing the telescope.
* Bahtinov mask
* Carey mask
* Hartmann mask
* Sub-aperture (en)
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| - Mirrors and lenses are the critical light-bending components of a telescope.
* Objective: The first lens or curved mirror that collects and focuses the incoming light.
* Primary lens: The objective of a refracting telescope.
* Primary mirror: The objective of a reflecting telescope.
* Corrector plate: A full aperture negative lens placed before a primary mirror designed to correct the optical aberrations of the mirror.
* Schmidt corrector plate: An aspheric-shaped corrector plate used in the Schmidt telescope.
* Meniscus corrector: A meniscus-shaped corrector plate usually used in the Maksutov telescope.
* Focusing mask: A full aperture mask temporarily placed before the primary mirror to aid in focusing the telescope.
* Bahtinov mask
* Carey mask
* Hartmann mask
* Sub-aperture corrector: One or a series of corrective lens (sometimes combined with a corrective curved mirror) placed after (near the focus) a primary mirror designed to correct the optical aberrations of the mirror. These can be just a small version of the corrector plate, but since they are usually used in a Cassegrain configuration in front of the secondary mirror they require additional modification since the light passes through them twice.
* Secondary mirror
* Mirror#Instruments
* Curved mirror
* Honeycomb mirror
* Liquid mirror
* Parabolic reflector Subsequent (sometimes optional) components realign, segment, or in some way modify the light of an incoming image:
* Field lens: A correcting lens placed just before the image plane of a telescope.
* Telecompressor or focal reducer: Optical element to decrease the telescope's focal length and magnification (usually by a fixed percentage) and widen the field of view, providing opposite effects of a Barlow lens.
* Star Diagonal: Used to change the angle of the light coming out of a telescope, for easier viewing.
* Herschel Wedge: Similar to a star diagonal with a wedge-shaped unsilvered prism reflector that reduces incoming light by up to 95% for solar viewing.
* a correcting lens used to reduce coma distortion in fast reflecting telescopes.
* a correcting lens used to reduce field curvature in refracting telescopes for astrophotography.
* Barlow lens: Optical element to increase the telescope's focal length and magnification, narrow the field of view and reduce coma distortion, providing opposite effects of a telecompressor.
* Astronomical filter: Used to select specific colors (or light frequencies) for astrophotography.
* : One manner to easily insert filters into the optical train. Mostly used for photography.
* Focuser: Allows the user to adjust the focus by moving the eyepiece along the optical axis.
* Eyepiece: Performs the final focus correction before the light reaches the eye.
* Charge-coupled device (CCD): A light-sensitive integrated circuit digital sensor (commonly used in digital cameras) that turns light into an electrical charge used to collection image data. Generally applicable to all items:
* Metallizing: A way of coating mirrors for high-efficiency light reflection.
* Optical coating: Thin layers applied to mirrors, filters, and lenses to avoid reflections, as well as absorb certain colors. (en)
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