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Schmidt Telescopes as Discovery Instruments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L. Woltjer
L. Woltjer*
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-8046 Garching b. München

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In 1930 B. Schmidt invented the telescope that bears his name. Eleven years later, there were already two dozen Schmidt telescopes with primaries of 25 cm or more in diameter (Dimitroff and Baker 1945). An invention spreading so rapidly must have fulfilled a basic need – the need for a large field with good image quality over a substantial wavelength range. Here I shall briefly review the role of the large Schmidt telescopes in contemporary astronomy.

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Research Article
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 78: Astronomy with Schmidt-type telescopes , 1984 , pp. 3 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984

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