Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope

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Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope [′shmit kas·gran ′tel·ə‚skōp]

(optics)

A variant of the Schmidt system which uses a Schmidt corrector plate together with a pair of spheroidal or slightly aspherical mirrors arranged as in a Cassegrain telescope.

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No references found			When, in the late 1990s he purchased an off-the-shelf Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope, his first action was to completely dismantle all of its components in order to minutely examine them and discover and eliminate errors. The Walter Goodacre Award: Ronald W. Arbour by Journal of the British Astronomical Association The camp I went to is situated in the lovely countryside of Portugal's Caldas de Monchique, and offered me the use of an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a magnification of 133x and 200x. Plough northwards, to the Big Dipper by Streicher, Magda / Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa Finally, as Meade continued to gather more and more market share, they opened the 1980''s with their line of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. Meade Telescopes ? where Quality Counts by Smooth Hound / Computers and Internet community			Schmidt camera Schmidt Correction Plate Schmidt field balance Schmidt lens Schmidt lines Schmidt net Schmidt Number 1 Schmidt number 2 Schmidt number 3 Schmidt objective Schmidt optics Schmidt projection Schmidt reflector Schmidt system Schmidt Telescope Schmidt, Adolf Schmidt, Benno Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Isaac Jakob Schmidt, Johannes Schmidt, Maarten Schmidt, Mike Schmidt, Wilhelm Schmidt, Wilhelm Matthaus Schmidt, Wilhelm Matthäus Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope Schmidt-Maksutov telescope Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl Schmitt circuit Schmitt limiter Schmitt trigger Schmitt, Harrison Hagan Schmitz, Ettore Schmitz, William J., Jr. Schmoke, Kurt Schmoller, Gustav Schmoller, Gustav Von Schmucker, Samuel Simon Schnabel Schnabel, Artur Schnabel, Johann Gottfried Schnabel, Julian Schnabel, Julien schnapps schnauzer Schneeberg Schneerson or Schneersohn, Menachem Mendel Schneidemühl Schneider Schneider recoil system Schneider's index			Schmidt projection Schmidt reflector Schmidt Ruppin Strain of Rous Sarcoma Virus Subgroup D Schmidt system Schmidt system Schmidt telescope Schmidt telescope Schmidt telescope Schmidt telescope Schmidt telescopes Schmidt telescopes Schmidt trigger Schmidt trigger Schmidt's Original Nabendynamo Schmidt's syndrome Schmidt's syndrome 1 Schmidt's syndrome 2 Schmidt's test Schmidt, Adolf Schmidt, Benno Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Isaac Jakob Schmidt, Johannes Schmidt, Maarten Schmidt, Mike Schmidt, Wilhelm Schmidt, Wilhelm Matthaus Schmidt, Wilhelm Matthäus Schmidt-cassegrain Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope Schmidt-Lanterman incisure Schmidt-Maksutov telescope Schmidt-Newtonian Telescope Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl Schmidt-Sibeth, Heisse, Weisskopf, Kursawe Schmidt-Waldmann vaccine Schmieden's suture Schmieding Center for Senior Health and Education Schmierkase Schmierkase Schmincke's tumor Schmincke's tumor Schmincke-Regaud tumor Schmincke-Regaud tumor Schmir Schmitt circuit Schmitt limiter Schmitt trigger Schmitt trigger Schmitt triggers Schmitt triggers Schmitt, Harrison Hagan Schmitt-trigger Schmitt-trigger Schmitz, Ettore Schmitz, William J., Jr. SCHML SCHMM schmo schmo

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