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Three wide-field telescopes with spherical primary mirrorsFormat | Member Price | Non-Member Price |
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Paper Abstract
This paper presents three optical designs based on the work of Maurice Paul. Paul's three-mirror anastigmats produce well-corrected, distortion-free fields of view. His design equations can be solved for a spherical primary mirror with one limitation: the image field is curved. Adding all-spherical refractive field-flattening optics yields well-corrected, flat image-fields of two degrees angular diameter or more. These designs can be scaled to very large telescopes with current technology.
Paper Details
Date Published: 22 July 2014
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, 91453P (22 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056683
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9145:
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V
Larry M. Stepp; Roberto Gilmozzi; Helen J. Hall, Editor(s)
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 9145, Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V, 91453P (22 July 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2056683
Show Author Affiliations
Dan Blanco, MMT Observatory, Univ. of Arizona (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 9145:
Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes V
Larry M. Stepp; Roberto Gilmozzi; Helen J. Hall, Editor(s)
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