10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCHMIDT CAMERA»
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Schmidt camera in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Spectrograph Design Fundamentals
13.4 Schmidt-camera spectrography The Schmidt camera is a well-known optical
device for achieving a very high numerical aperture at a large field angle. It has
been applied to spectrography for the observation of very faint extended sources
...
2
Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, ...
6.23(a) The Schmidt-Cassegrain camera; (b) the Baker Super-Schmidt camera.
focal ratio, working over a field many times larger than is possible with systems of
a more conventional design. More complex systems using the principle of the ...
Max Born, Emil Wolf, 1999
3
How It Works: Science and Technology
The correcting lens in a Schmidt camera is usually a thin, nonspherical corrector
plate (3.9 in., or 10 cm, thick for the 48 in. Schmidt camera), but a solid Schmidt
camera can be made, whose corrector and mirror consists of one piece of glass,
...
Marshall Cavendish Corporation Staff, 2003
4
To Measure the Sky: An Introduction to Observational Astronomy
Fold mirror Folded Schmidt camera (a) (b) Hole in mirror Fig. 11.14 (a) A simple
slit spectrometer with reflective optics in a near- Littrow configuration. (b) A folded
Schmidt camera that might replace the prime focus camera in (a). In the case of ...
Frederick R. Chromey, 2010
5
The 20-cm
Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope: A Practical ...
1.2, is the classical Schmidt camera. A thin lens - more of an optically weak
correator plate - is placed in front of the mirror. The corrector plate also forms an
aperture stop which is typically at the center of curvature of the spherical primary
mirror ...
6
Transactions of the International Astronomical Union
Gratton reports the extensive use of a 42 A/mm grating spectrograph at Bosque
Alegre, and construction of a lower dispersion instrument, possibly to reach I4m.
A small Schmidt camera has been finished, for eventual use with an objective ...
International Astronomical Union (London), 1936
7
The Analysis of Starlight: Two Centuries of Astronomical ...
In the words of Ira Bowen: 'Suddenly, however, the picture was completely
changed by the advent of the Schmidt camera and its various modifications and
by the development of the blazed grating, which permits the concentration of 60–
70 per ...
8
Prism and Lens Making, Second Edition: A Textbook for ...
Apart from its own special investigations, the Palomar Schmidt camera will act as
a guide to the most effective use of the 200-inch telescope. The usefulness of
such a partnership was demonstrated two years before the war by the smaller 18-
in ...
9
Firefly Astronomy Dictionary
SCHMIDT CAMERA (SCHMIDT TELESCOPE) pends very little on wavelength.
Where the particles are very much smaller than the wavelength, the amount of
scattering (d) is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength (A): <
J« ...
10
The Analysis of Starlight: One Hundred and Fifty Years of ...
In 1934 Dunham carried out the first test of a Schmidt camera to replace the Ross
lens as a coude camera (62). In Dunham's words: It was of course W. Baade,
coming from Hamburg, who brought news of the. . . invention of the Schmidt plate
, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCHMIDT CAMERA»
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Schmidt camera is used in the context of the following news items.
Asteroid threat telescope on way
The Spaceguard Centre, in Knighton, has been given the Schmidt camera free of charge by the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University. It will be used to ... «BBC News, Jun 09»
