- Schmidt mirror system
- <opt> ■ Schmidt-Spiegelsystem n
English-german technical dictionary. 2013.
Schmidt mirror system
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Schmidt, Bernhard Voldemar — ▪ German optician born March 30, 1879, Naissaar, Estonia died December 1, 1935, Hamburg, Germany optical (optics) instrument maker who invented the telescope (Schmidt telescope) named for him, an instrument widely used to photograph large… … Universalium
Schmidt system — [shmit] n. 〚after B. Schmidt (1879 1935), Ger astronomer〛 a wide angle optical system having a concave, spherical mirror whose aberration is neutralized by a correcting lens: often used in special, photographic reflecting telescopes to obtain… … Universalium
Schmidt system — [shmit] n. [after B. Schmidt (1879 1935), Ger astronomer] a wide angle optical system having a concave, spherical mirror whose aberration is neutralized by a correcting lens: often used in special, photographic reflecting telescopes to obtain… … English World dictionary
Schmidt camera — A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is an astronomical camera designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberrations. Other similar designs are the Wright Camera and Lurie Houghton telescope.Invention and… … Wikipedia
Schmidt-Pechan prism — A Schmidt Pechan prism is a type of optical prism used to rotate an image by 180°. They are commonly used in binoculars as an image erecting system . Compared to binoculars using a Porro prism or Abbe Koenig a binoculars using a Schmidt Pechan… … Wikipedia
Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope — The Schmidt Cassegrain is a catadioptric telescope. It combines a folded optical path with a corrector plate to make a compact astronomical instrument. Invention and DesignThe Schmidt Cassegrain is a design based on Bernhard Schmidt s Schmidt… … Wikipedia
Schmidt corrector plate — A Schmidt corrector plate, invented by Bernhard Schmidt in 1930 [http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/history/schmidt] , is a lens used to correct spherical aberration in a reflecting telescope that uses a spherical primary mirror. The corrector is placed in … Wikipedia
Schmidt-Newton telescope — The optical design of the Schmidt Newton telescope combines elements from both the Schmidt camera and the Newtonian telescope. In this system the parabolic primary mirror common in newtonian reflector is replaced by a spherical mirror, which… … Wikipedia
Schmidt-Väisälä camera — The Schmidt Väisälä camera is an astronomical telescopeIntended for wide field (5 to 10 degrees of arc) photographic work. It was designed by Yrjö Väisälä.Invention and designProf. Yrjö Väisälä originally designed an astronomical camera similar… … Wikipedia
Schmidt camera — noun reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed • Syn: ↑Schmidt telescope • Hypernyms: ↑reflecting telescope, ↑reflector * * * ˈshmit noun Usage: usually capitalized S … Useful english dictionary
schmidt system — noun Usage: usually capitalized S : an optical system that utilizes an objective composed of a concave spherical mirror having in front of it a transparent correction plate carefully figured to offset the spherical aberration of the mirror … Useful english dictionary
