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What is the difference between a refractor and a reflector?

Answer

Telescopes which employ two convex lenses cause the image to appear inverted. Terrestrial versions of such telescopes and binoculars employ prisms (e.g. Porro prisms) or a relay lens between objective and eyepiece to invert the image once more. Thus, an upright image appears in the eyepiece.

— Source: Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)