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Collocations for telescope - noun

ADJECTIVE

powerful
60 mm, etc.
ground-based, optical, radio, space
images from the Hubble space telescope

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VERB + telescope

use
point
We can't simply point a telescope at a star and see its orbiting planets directly.
set up
She set up her telescope on the balcony.
build
They've built the largest telescope in the world.

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PREPOSITION

through a/the telescope
I looked at the moon through a telescope.
with a telescope, without a telescope
These stars are too faint to been seen without a telescope.

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PHRASES

the wrong end of a telescope
He felt as if he were seeing things through the wrong end of a telescope.

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