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Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope.
2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 197:
Within a year or two of Galileo's telescopic discoveries no one disputed that the moon had mountains, Jupiter had moons, Venus had phases and the sun had spots […].
(chiefly astronomy) Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope.
