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Calar-Alto-Schmidtspiegel comparison table |
Subject | has comment | has location | has owner | has latitude | has secondary mirror shape | has mirror maker | is a kind of | has optical design | has mirror type | has altitude | is an instance of | has synonym | has focal ratio | has aperture | has mount | has definition | has mounting manufacturer | has longitude | has mirror diameter | has primary mirror shape | has creation date |
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Fork equatorial telescope | in degrees, minutes, seconds (N or S) | equatorial telescope | height above sea level in meters | equatorial fork | the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting | in degrees, minutes, seconds (E or W) | |||||||||||||||
Schmidt | in degrees, minutes, seconds (N or S) | none | the person, company or institution that created the mirror | equatorial telescope | Schmidt | material and other engineering details | height above sea level in meters | or primary mirror diameter | equatorial | A type of reflecting telescope (more accurately, a large camera) in which the coma produced by a spherical concave mirror is compensated for by a thin correcting lens placed at the opening of the telescope tube. The Schmidt has a usable field of 0°.6. | the person, company or institution that constructed the mounting | in degrees, minutes, seconds (E or W) | equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter) | concave spheroid | |||||||
Calar-Alto-Schmidtspiegel | Tube and optics moved from Hamburg, Germany, where the instrument had been in use since 1955 | Calar Alto, Spain | Calar Alto Observatory | 37° 13' N | none | Zeiss (Jena) | Schmidt | material and other engineering details | 2168 m | Fork equatorial telescope | Calar Alto Schmidt | f/3.0 | 0.80 m | equatorial fork | Grubb-Parsons | 2° 32' W | 1.2 m | concave spheroid | 1980 |
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