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A Simple Houghton Camera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

N. J. Rumsey*
Affiliation:
Physics and Engineering Laboratory, DSIR, New Zealand

Extract

The Schmidt camera is conceptually elegant and has a remarkable performance, but it suffers from several practical disadvantages. Two of these concern us here. First, there are very few craftsmen who are competent to make the aspheric correcting plate of the Schmidt camera compared with the number of those competent to make spherical surfaces of high quality.

Type
Equipment
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1974

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