Refracting telescopes can come in many different configurations to correct for image orientation and types of aberration.

The absence of this type of aberration is one of the most important advantages of the reflecting telescope over the refracting.

Suppose a doubly refracting mineral section so placed that it is "extinguished"; if now is rotated through 45 degrees it will be brightly illuminated.

Chromatic aberration filters: Used for reduction of the purplish halo, caused by chromatic aberration of refracting telescopes.

The observatory's 'lantern' (cupola) included a P & J Dolland Achromatic Refracting Telescope, which could identify ships 30 miles (48 km) to sea.

A flash like the refracting of light against glass caught his attention from out on the street, and he leaned to one side in the kiosk to try and see out the transparent aluminum walls.

His later images were nearly all abstract, often made directly (without a camera, i.e. like photograms), for instance images created by refracting light through splashes of water and corn syrup on a glass plate.

In 1880, Professor Rolla C. Carpenter built an observatory for the (then) State Agricultural College to house an Alvan Clark & Sons refracting telescope of 5.5 inches aperture.

The main facility, located on Mars Hill just west of downtown Flagstaff, houses the original 24-inch (0.61 m) Clark Refracting Telescope, although its role today is as a public education tool and not research.

Though its World War I story unfolds among French and British soldiers and their German captors at prison camps, "Grand Illusion" is extraordinary in refracting the battles raging outside through the apparent civility of the prisoners.

A Luneburg Lens for the SKA Summary of the MNRF research project into the manufacture of a low-cost microwave refracting spherical lens for radioastronomy, proposes the use of artificial dielectrics.

She found a way to refract the present situation through literature.

The cultural politics of race in America are always refracted through class.

Her eyes, suddenly silver and only refracting, giving back what they saw.

"The left side is refracted most," she whispered to herself.

Light from the sides was also refracted outward and away.

I see other people straight on, then refracted in windows as we speed away from one another.

Why do teachers insist white light can not be refracted into colors?

Possibly the cause is only one, refracted through diverse media.

He looked down, his view slightly refracted through the glass of a mask.

It was bent, as a beam of light is refracted by water.

His glory is refracted, as it were, to their eyes, through the universe.

The signal has to pass through the atmosphere and gets refracted along the way.

"It refracts the light so that even if it's a gray day, the room is warm."

Refracted in the light, the edge looked very white.

North watched as the light began to scatter and refract in the center of his hall.

It refracts light and protects the contents of the eye.

In this case, sound waves can be refracted from the upper levels down to the surface.

"It is only glass refracting the red rays of sunlight."

How could this explain the fact that a single photon refracts?

Refracting telescopes and their photographic images do not have the same problem.

Yet the colors were dramatic, refracted by the moisture on every surface.

It was the landscape itself which changed, Gordon saw at last, refracted by laws of its own.

It was as if they were refracted through a thousand glittering mirrors.

Yet her identity is one that is always being refracted through the larger world.