If you've ever looked through a magnifying glass or a pair of reading glasses, you can see how effective magnification can be through a lense. With refracting telescopes, it's a very simiilar process. You are literally magnifying the objects in space that you are viewing. It's almost as if you are dragging the light from distant planets and stars and bringing them right to your eye.

While the  technology behind refracting telescopes is amazing, we hope you find the objects that you view with them to be amazing as well.