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Some sort of tube structure is required to keep the telescope optical components appropriately lined up and pointing at anything. The tube structure can be either opaque or open.
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Clark, R.L. (2011). Tubes. In: Amateur Telescope Making in the Internet Age. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6415-1_9
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