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| Bent-yoke equatorial telescope | | | | in degrees, minutes, seconds (N or S) | | | equatorial telescope | | | height above sea level in meters | | | | bent-yoke equatorial | | 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 | |
| Venezuela 1-meter Schmidt | has a 1-m objective prism | Llano del Hato, Merida, Venezuela | Centro "EJ. Duarte" | 8° 47' N | none | Askania | | Concentric Schmidt | material and other engineering details | 3610 m | Bent-yoke equatorial telescope | f/3.0 | 1.00 m | bent-yoke equatorial | | Askania | 70° 52' W | 1.52 m | concave spheroid | 1978 |
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