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Telescopes Flashcards

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Flow of Light
• Schmidt Corrector Plate
• Parabolic Primary Mirror
• Spherical Mirror
• Eyepiece

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Schmidt Cassegraine Telescope

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Hyperbolic Mirrors, no corrector plate

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Ritchey Chretien Telescope

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Elliptical primary and spherical secondary mirror

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Dall-Kirkham Telescope

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Flow of Light
• Primary Corrector Plate
• Primary Mirror
• Camera

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Rowe-Ackerman Schmidt Astrograph

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Flow of Light
• Corrector Plate
• Primary Mirror
• Secondary Mangin Mirror
• Eyepiece

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Riccardi-Honders Astrograph

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Ritchey Chretien Telescope

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George Willis Ritchey and Henri Chretien

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Dall-Kirkham Telescope

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Horace Edward Stafford Dall, Alan R. Kirkham

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Riccardi-Honders Astrograph

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Massimo Riccardi, Allister Honders

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Schmidt Cassegraine Telescope

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Bernhard Schmidt (Camera) & Laurent Cassegraine (Primary-Secondary Layout)

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Maksutov Cassegrain

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Dmitri Dmitrivich Maksutov

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Observational Astronomy (3 decks)

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