Opera or Field Glasses. - The opera glass consists of an objective LM which converges the rays toward the point S (Figure 43), but before they reach this point they pass through the diverging lens NP which replaces the eyepiece of the telescope. In passing through this diverging lens, the rays that were converging on entering it are made to diverge on leaving it. To an eye on the right-hand side of the lens NP the rays seem to have come from a point A' behind the concave lens NP, which thus forms the virtual and erect image A'B' of the object from which light was received. Unlike the astronomical telescope, the opera glass gives an erect image. To have the opera glass in focus, the lens NP must be so placed with respect to the objective that the rays emerging from the lens NP are nearly parallel.