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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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Eventually two sites in Italy and one in South Africa were chosen as follows: * Dome of the Liceo Ginnasio 'G Parini' in the centre of Milan: Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain 280 mm f/10 telescope and a Canon EOS20D camera, used for the Moon parallax calculation.
Finally, as Meade continued to gather more and more market share, they opened the 1980''s with their line of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes.
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