Diagram of Schmidt cameraThe 77 cm Schmidt-telescope from 1966 at Brorfelde Observatory was originally equipped with photographic film, and an engineer is here showing the film-box, which was then placed behind the locker at the center of the telescope (at the telescope's prime focus)
A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberrations. The design was invented by Bernhard Schmidt in 1930.
Some notable examples are the Samuel Oschin telescope (formerly Palomar Schmidt), the UK Schmidt Telescope and the ESO Schmidt; these provided the major source of all-sky photographic imaging from 1950 until 2000, when electronic detectors took over. A recent example is the Kepler space telescope exoplanet finder.
Other related designs are the Wright camera and Lurie–Houghton telescope.
A Schmidtcamera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, is a catadioptric astrophotographic telescope designed to provide wide fields of view with...
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reflective cameras of short exposure time for astronomical research. Schmidt was the son of Carl Constantin and Marie Helene Christine (née Rosen) Schmidt. He...
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Interferometer and the first telescopes at the observatory, an 18-inch (46 cm) Schmidtcamera from 1936. Astronomer George Ellery Hale, whose vision created the Palomar...
Dmitrievich Maksutov. Maksutov based his design on the idea behind the Schmidtcamera of using the spherical errors of a negative lens to correct the opposite...
cassegrains. The Schmidt corrector, the first full-diameter corrector plate, was used in Bernhard Schmidt's 1931 Schmidtcamera. The Schmidtcamera is a wide-field...
Oschin telescope (/ˈɔːʃɪn/), also called the Oschin Schmidt, is a 48-inch-aperture (1.22 m) Schmidtcamera at the Palomar Observatory in northern San Diego...
The history of the camera began even before the introduction of photography. Cameras evolved from the camera obscura through many generations of photographic...
(though the name is unchanged). The UKST is a Schmidtcamera, with a design based on the Oschin Schmidt Telescope. It is a survey telescope with a 6°...
off the Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (then called the 48-inch SchmidtCamera). Jean Mueller was hired as the 48-Inch Night Assistant in July of that...
Wright camera design, presented by Franklin Wright (Berkeley, California) in 1935, just a few years after the introduction of the Schmidtcamera, was his...
(catadioptric systems) such as the aspherical Schmidt corrector plate used in the Schmidtcameras and the Schmidt–Cassegrain telescopes. Small molded aspheres...
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory by Grigory Shajn and his team using a Schmidtcamera and a narrowband filter close to the Hydrogen Alpha transmission line...
to correct the resulting aberrations. The Schmidt-Cassegrain was developed from the wide-field Schmidtcamera, although the Cassegrain configuration gives...
Leica Camera AG (/ˈlaɪkʌ/) is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, and rifle scopes. The company...
for wide field of view (such as Schmidtcameras), or for work at specific wavelengths of light. Astronomical CCD cameras may cool the sensor to reduce thermal...
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is an American sitcom created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, starring Ellie Kemper in the title role. It premiered on March...
The telescope has an optical design that more resembles that of a Schmidtcamera, but has a 3-element lens to achieve a wide, corrected field of view...
most of the largest astronomical telescopes. 1930 — Bernhard Schmidt invents the Schmidtcamera. 1932 — John Donovan Strong first “aluminizes" a telescope...
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