Schmidt telescope


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Schmidt telescope
noun a type of catadioptric telescope used for wide-angle astronomical photography, with a thin glass plate at the front to correct for spherical aberration.
– origin 1930s: named after the German inventor Bernhard V. Schmidt.
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