schmidt camera
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World English Dictionary
| Schmidt telescope or Schmidt camera | |
| —n | |
| a catadioptric telescope designed to produce a very sharp image of a large area of sky in one photographic exposure. It incorporates a thin specially shaped glass plate at the centre of curvature of a short-focus spherical primary mirror so that the resulting image, which is focused on a photographic plate, is free from spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism | |
| [C20: named after B. V. Schmidt (1879--1935), Estonian-born German inventor] | |
| Schmidt camera or Schmidt camera | |
| —n | |
| [C20: named after B. V. Schmidt (1879--1935), Estonian-born German inventor] | |
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| schmidt camera | |
noun | |
| reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed [syn: Schmidt telescope] |
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