refractor

Another really good sort of classic starter would be a three- to four-inch refractor and for the refractor, I would probably recommend a manual equatorial mount.

I will be observing her through the sixty-inch refractor to-night.

In the refractor the observer looks toward the object; in the reflector he looks away from it.

The refractor achieves this by means of a carefully shaped lens, called the object glass, or objective.

The answer is, that the refractor gives more light and better definition.

In what follows I have only a refractor in mind, although the same principles would apply to a reflector.