Telescopes as light buckets

How lenses  form images

How mirrors form images

Relaxed requirements for radio telescopes allow them to be much bigger than optical ones

Optics are not just used for telescopes. What is a spectrograph?

Why images blur
Blurring not just from optics, also atmosphere ...

How to fix the problem (not required for this course, just if you are interested ...)

Other reason to go into space: