Schmidt Telescope
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Telescope - traditionally, a system of lenses, mirrors, or both, used to gather light from a distant object and form an image of it.
Schmidt Telescope
(a) A telescope with a spherical primary mirror and a thin refractive corrector plate with a complex, non-spherical shape. Very wide-field performance for surveys.
The Schmidt Telescope
The Horsehead Nebula in Orion. This image, approximately 1.5° across, was obtained with the UK Schmidt telescope at the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Schmidt telescope - A type of reflecting telescope invented by Bernhard Schmidt, in which certain aberrations produced by a spherical concave mirror are compensated for by a thin objective correcting lens.
[3.7] THE SCHMIDT TELESCOPE / THE CORONAGRAPH
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2 metre UK Schmidt Telescope
Coonabarabran, New South Wales (Australia)
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11m Hobby-Eberly Telescope, 2.7m Harlan J. Smith Telescope, 2.1m Otto Struve Telescope ...
A design that overcomes this problem is the Schmidt telescope, named after its inventor, Bernhard Schmidt, who built the first such instrument in the 1930s.
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95 meter reflecting telescope—a Schmidt telescope with a wide field of view. At the focus of the telescope is the largest astronomical camera ever launched. The camera has 42 CCDs (charge-coupled devices) totaling 95 megapixels.
1973 - UK Schmidt Telescope 1.2 metre optical reflecting telescope begins operation, located in Anglo-Australian Observatory near Coonabarabran, Australia ...
Earlier this year, Trujillo and Brown used the Palomar Oschin Schmidt telescope to discover Quaoar as an 18.
Schmidt telescopes can cover a wide field of view, the UK Schmidt Telescope for instance covers a 6° × 6° field on a single plate. A survey plate from such an instrument can contain many thousands of discrete sources such as star.
4-metre Schmidt Telescope at the famous Palomar Observatory in California when they discovered a bizarre looking object. It was a comet for sure, but it was stretched out, and along its 50-arcsecond length were bright knots, like pearls on a string.
A visual inspection of 894 UK Schmidt Telescope photographic survey plates covering the entire Southern sky had been used to discover many previously uncatalogued large, diffuse low surface brightness objects.
(1.22-m) Schmidt telescope on Mount Palomar. Each plate covers a region of the sky 6° by 6°, and 1035 charts cover all the sky visible from Mount Palomar.
2-meter (48-inch) United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope on Siding Spring Mountain (at an altitude of 1,150 meters), near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia.
"FLAIR (Fibre-Linked Array Image Reformatter), was a way of harnessing the wide field of view of a large Schmidt Telescope to modern multi-object spectroscopic studies rather than the traditional photographic imaging for which the telescope was ...
Brown and others at CalTech using the Palomar Observatory's Samual Oschin 48 inch Schmidt telescope and the Palomar-Quest large-area CCD camera.
In 2002, Brown and Trujillo used the Palomar Oschin Schmidt telescope to see Quaoar as an 18.5-magnitude object creeping across the summer constellation Ophiuchus.
Photographic plates obtained with a Schmidt telescope, which is a type of telescope with a particularly large field of view. [LB90]
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In 1977-1984 Charles Kowal performed a new systematic search for undiscovered bodies in the solar system, using Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Schmidt telescope.
ESO, Digitized Sky Survey, U.K. Schmidt Telescope
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It was first detected on a photograph taken on the night of March 24, 1993, with the 0.4-meter Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain in California.
The search is carried out using the Schmidt telescope of the Campo Imperatore station of the Rome Observatory near the summit of the Gran Sasso Mountain....
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Palomar Mountain Observatory is an astronomical observatory located on Palomar Mountain in southern California, USA. It has a 200-in. (508-cm) reflecting telescope and a 48-in. (122-cm) Schmidt telescope. It was founded by the astronomer George E.
All-sky surveys (such as those from large Schmidt telescopes) changed this view. The distribution of galaxies to a given magnitude shows considerable structure, as shown in this map from Sharp 1986 (PASP 98, 740, from the ADS) for galaxies to B=14.
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language entry for TELESCOPING
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition entry for Schmidt telescope
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of one such "deep-field" picture is on the right; practically all the objects are distant galaxies.) Innovative eyepieces and other modifications meanwhile greatly expanded the field of view of telescopes, culminating in the Schmidt telescope of ...
296A (located 100 ly away), and identified it as a probable brown dwarf with mass of , surface temperature of 2800 K, and luminosity . H. Jones and M. R. S. Hawkins identified four additional brown dwarf candidates by staking U. K. Schmidt telescope ...
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