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Astronomical Optics, 2nd Edition
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Astronomical Optics, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Schroeder
September 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
478 pages
21h 54m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 8
Catadioptric Telescopes and Cameras
In this chapter we discuss various derivatives of the Schmidt type of telescope,
including Schmidt-Cassegrain, Baker-Schmidt, and Bouwers-Maksutov systems.
Each of these is a type of catadioptric telescope in which a fiill-aperture
refracting element provides the aberration correction needed to get good imagery
over a wide field. Given this definition, the classical Schmidt telescope is also of
this type.
The Schmidt-Cassegrain, as the name suggests, is a two-mirror system with an
aspheric corrector in the collimated beam ahead of the primary mirror. Baker-
Schmidt systems are a subclass of the Schmidt-Cassegrai ...
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ISBN: 9780126298109