Reflecting Telescopes Discipline: Education Curved mirrors can bend light and make parallel light rays converge to a focus. This focus is directly in the path of the incoming light, so there are several ways of making images from the mirror visible. One is called a Newtonian reflector, where a flat mirror is used to point the light rays out to an eyepiece.Tags: lensmirrorprime focusNewtonianCassegrainCoudé